A way to determine a file's delimiter on the fly? Not that I know of. In fact, I'm not sure it can be done. Think about it, you could have one file, call it a.txt, that is a CSV file. Your next file, let's call it b.txt just to be creative, could have commas in it but be a pipe-delimited file. b.txt could have underscores, which are the delimiters for the next file ...

... called caeser.txt, which just so happens to contain those commas and quotes which are used to delimit fields in a.txt.

If anyone can come up with a solution to this, I'd like to shake that person's hand ... or rather, at least know who did it and what their reasoning was.

(BTW, I apologize for the injection of P.G. Wodehouse into the middle of this, but that is a weakness of mine. Please forgive me.)

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In reply to Re: delimited files by tbone1
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