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Text File Export Guide

The document provides instructions for exporting data from a file editor to a text file. It explains the options for specifying the export file path, format, delimiters, field and value enclosures, and whether to include field names and structures.

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Text File Export Guide

The document provides instructions for exporting data from a file editor to a text file. It explains the options for specifying the export file path, format, delimiters, field and value enclosures, and whether to include field names and structures.

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Export To Text File

Select the Edit | Tools | Export menu option (or click the Export button on the File Editor

toolbar) to open the Export To Text File form.

Export file path

Specify the filename and path of the exported file. Use the Browse (ellipsis) button to navigate to
a folder location.

Replace non-numeric with

Enter the character that will be used to replace non-numeric field values.

Replace blanks with

Enter the character that will be used to replace blank field values.

Left justify

If the COLUMN FORMAT text file format is selected, select this option if you want numeric
fields to be left-justified in the output file.

Text file format

Choose the (COLUMN FORMAT, DELIMITED, TAB DELIMITED, SPACE DELIMITED,


COMMA DELIMITED) file format of the output file from the drop-down list.

Note: Delimiters are ASCII characters used to separate one data field from the next. A comma is
often used as a delimiter.

Delimiter

If the DELIMITED text file format is selected, enter the ASCII character to be used as a
separator between adjacent field values.

Enclose character values in

If you have chosen a delimited (TAB, SPACE, COMMA , or ASCII character) text file format,
enter the character to appear before and after each character field value. The double quote (") is
most commonly used.

Enclose numeric values in


If you have chosen a delimited (TAB, SPACE, COMMA , or ASCII character) text file format,
enter the character to appear before and after each numeric field value.

Write field names to first record

Select this option to write field names to the first line of the output file. Field names will be
enclosed in quotes and separated using the same delimiter used to write data records to the output
file.

Enclose field names in

If you have chosen to write field names to the first record, enter the character to appear before
and after each field name. The double quote (") is most commonly used.

Export View

Select this option to export the fields in the order they are displayed in the editor. Hidden fields
will not be exported.

Export File

Select this option to export the fields in the order they are defined by the file structure. Hidden
fields will be included in the export process.

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