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Export data from Clipper table to HTML file using dynamic filename with date and time
Login to Clipper -> Choose Clipper table -> Set HTML filename template including date -> Export Clipper to HTML using current date as file name
Choose Clipper and logon.
“Export From Table” for “HTML to Clipper“.
Select HTML file type.
1. Choose Clipper table.
2. Set HTML 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 Clipper table data to HTML file. Dynamically created HTML file name using present system time.
After exporting, you can view output HTML files.
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Clipper → HTML reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in Clipper | in HTML |
|---|---|---|
| Int | Numeric(10,0) | <td>1234</td> |
| Bigint | Numeric(19,0) | <td>9007199254740993</td> |
| Decimal | Numeric(p,s) | <td>1234.56</td> |
| Float | Float | <td>1.234e+10</td> |
| Text | Character(n) | <td>text</td> |
| Long text | Memo | <td>multi-line text</td> (entities for & <) |
| Date | Date | <td>2026-09-18</td> |
| Datetime | (none) | <td>2026-09-18 14:30:00</td> |
| Binary | (none) | not representable in a cell |
| Boolean | Logical | <td>true</td> |
| JSON | (none) | <td>{"a":1}</td> (quotes escaped) |
Dialect differences
Clipper is a database server and HTML 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 Clipper | in HTML |
|---|---|---|
| port | (file-based) | — |
| identifiers | — | Attribute values in quotes; entities for reserved characters |
| row limit | (driver dependent) | — |
| dates | Date (D) | Whatever text was rendered |
| long text | Memo (M) | — |
| binary | — | data: URIs inside src attributes |
| separator | — | Tags, not delimiters |
| encoding | — | Declared in a meta charset tag or the HTTP header |
| typing | — | None |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Free form; tables are row/column structures inside markup |
| ceiling | — | No formal limit |
No counterpart
- HTML has no equivalent for Date and time – it has to be flattened or dropped.
- HTML has no equivalent for Binary – it has to be flattened or dropped.
- HTML has no equivalent for JSON – it has to be flattened or dropped.
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