It appears that APPEND FROM command has an undocumented behaviour which is it cannot transfer its values into a Memo Field. So in cases where you want to append data from say a csv, text or other types and your destination table has a memo field, then forget about this command.
Inside foxite forum, this exact problem causes a member to search for a way to achieve getting the values of a column of a CSV file that has more than 256 characters (definitely a candidate for a memo field type). And APPEND FROM cannot simply just do that.
Having said, I showed him an alternative way to transfer data from a CSV file to our table with memo fields via excel automation. It is quite simple really to do that. Here is a small snippet for that:
Create Cursor junk (familyid i, Name c(60), Description M)
Local lcFile, loExcel As Excel.Application, lnLastRow
lcFile = Getfile("csv")
If !Empty(m.lcFile)
loExcel = Createobject("excel.application")
With loExcel
.Workbooks.Open(m.lcFile)
For lnloop = 2 To .Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
Insert Into junk (familyid, Name, Description) Values ;
(.Cells(m.lnloop,1).Value,.Cells(m.lnloop,2).Value,;
.Cells(m.lnloop,3).Value)
Next
.ActiveWorkBook.Close
.Quit
Endwith
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Endif
Using his sample data, here is the result of said automation:
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And that is it, an easy way to import data from a CSV file (or any other files that excel supports) into our tables including ones for Memo fields. Cheers!
And that is it, an easy way to import data from a CSV file (or any other files that excel supports) into our tables including ones for Memo fields. Cheers!