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Jan,

The company name is in the first column. Here is an example of the data, using the piping symbol as the column delimiter. So, the fields shown are company name, contact, address, city, state, zipcode

JJR Enterprises, Inc. |Jay Roberts |560 E. Carson Dr. |Raleigh |NC |27527

This line of data ...

Hi Jan,

We're on the same wavelength in our understanding of global variables. I will continue to experiment in this area.

Back to the original problem ... as I said, when I replaced the comma with the tilde, it worked fine. If I then replace the tilde with a comma, it reverts to the original ...

Jan,

This is the current version (there have been many). notice the commented out line, where I experimented with replacing the comma with a tilde, to see if it made a difference. Yes, it did. The "~ Inc." was in the proper column. So the comma is acting like it's in an unquoted csv field.

One ...

Jan,

I have a similar problem. For example, I have a company name field where frequently there is a ", Inc." after the name. Wherever the comma is, it moves the "Inc." into the next field. In other words it is using the comma as the column delimiter. I tried the code snippet you provided to Kai ...

Hi BvG,

Sending you a private message, as well as a public, since it's been so long since your reply to my question, I wanted to make sure you saw this. I wasn't ignoring you, but have been on the road and unable to reply. Please forgive me.

I appreciate your reply, but still cannot figure out how ...

Hi Everyone,

I just downloaded the trial Studio yesterday. Have gone thru the startup tutorials and printed out the user manual to study.

I have scanned the docs, websites, etc., but have been unable to figure out how one would go about doing the following:

I want to create an app with topics on ...