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The newdatabasewithtextfieldnames statement creates a new database from a text file. The text file must contain the field names in the first line.

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Parameters

This statement has one parameter:

textfile – path and name of text file, or “” to ask user.

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Description

This statement creates a new database from data in a text file. Here is an example that creates a new database from a file named Mailing List.text.

newdatabasewithtextfieldnames "~/Dropbox/MailingList.text"

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See Also

• arrayfilter( -- processes each element of a text array or a data array with a formula (see Text Arrays and Data Arrays).
• csvtotsv( -- converts comma separated text into tab separated text.
• Import Database -- importing another database into the current database.
• import( -- returns a line or element of imported data. This function works in conjunction with repetitive operations like importtext, arrayfilter(, characterfilter( etc.
• importcell( -- returns one cell of imported data.
• importdatabase -- imports data from another database into the current database.
• importjson -- imports a JSON array into the current database.
• importjsonline -- imports a JSON record into the current record.
• importline -- imports a line of text into the current record.
• importrawdata -- imports raw binary data into an existing database.
• importtext -- imports text into an existing database.
• newdatabasewithtextfile -- creates a new database from a plain text file. The fields will be named A, B, C, etc.
• partialdatabaseupdate -- updates one or more components of an existing database.
• seq( -- returns sequential numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.).
• Text Import -- importing text into an existing database.
• tsvtocsv( -- converts tab separated text into comma separated text.
• tsvtojson( -- converts tab separated text into JSON formatted text.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	New	New in this version.