Want to export data from Visual FoxPro query result to TXT using current date as file name?
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Export Visual FoxPro query result to TXT file using dynamic filename with date and time
Login to Visual FoxPro -> Enter Visual FoxPro SQL statement -> Set TXT filename template including date -> Export Visual FoxPro query to TXT using current date as file name
Choose Visual FoxPro and logon.
“Export From Query” for “TXT to Visual FoxPro“.
Select TXT file type.
1. Enter Visual FoxPro SQL query.
2. Set TXT file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.
3. Set rows options.
4. Export Visual FoxPro query results to TXT file. Dynamically created TXT file name using present system time.
After exporting, you can view output TXT files.
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Visual FoxPro → TXT reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in Visual FoxPro | in TXT |
|---|---|---|
| Int | Numeric(10,0) | 1234, or right-aligned in a fixed-width column |
| Bigint | Numeric(19,0) | 9007199254740993 |
| Decimal | Numeric(p,s) | 1234.56 |
| Float | Float | 1.234e+10 |
| Text | Character(n) | written as-is; padding depends on the chosen layout |
| Long text | Memo | written as-is |
| Date | Date | whatever the writer chose |
| Datetime | DateTime | whatever the writer chose |
| Binary | General | not representable |
| Boolean | Logical | Y / N, or 1 / 0, or TRUE / FALSE |
| JSON | (none) | written as-is |
Dialect differences
Visual FoxPro is a database server and TXT is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference – the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.
| Property | in Visual FoxPro | in TXT |
|---|---|---|
| port | (file-based) | — |
| identifiers | — | None by convention |
| row limit | (driver dependent) | — |
| dates | Date (D), DateTime (T) | Whatever the writer produced; no convention is guaranteed |
| long text | Memo (M) | — |
| binary | General (G) | Not supported |
| separator | — | Whatever was chosen - often fixed column widths |
| encoding | — | No declaration - UTF-8 works only with a BOM |
| typing | — | None - every field is text |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Free form; a parser has to be told the layout |
| ceiling | — | No formal limit |
No counterpart
- TXT has no equivalent for JSON – it has to be flattened or dropped.
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