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Batch import Excel files to Visual FoxPro tables

Want to bulk import Excel files into Visual FoxPro tables at one time?

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Bulk import Excel files into Visual FoxPro tables

Login to Visual FoxPro -> Choose Excel files -> Set Visual FoxPro tables -> Import Excel files to Visual FoxPro tables

Choose Visual FoxPro and logon.

Click “Wizard – N Files To N Tables” at task dialog.

Select the “Excel” file type.

then show the wizard.

1. Select a folder that constains Excel files.

2. Config first Excel file importing options.

3. Set “Import Type”.

4. Map Visual FoxPro tables to Excel files.

5. Summary. Set “Convert Rows” and “Skip Rows” if need.

6. Import Excel files to Visual FoxPro tables, 1 file to 1 table, one by one.

View imported data in Visual FoxPro table


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EXCEL → Visual FoxPro reference

Type mapping

Value kindin EXCELin Visual FoxPro
Int1234 (a real numeric cell)Numeric(10,0)
Bigint9007199254740993 (exact only while the cell stays text)Numeric(19,0)
Decimal1234.56 (numeric cell, format controls the displayed decimals)Numeric(p,s)
Float1.234E+10 (numeric cell)Float
Texttext cell; leading zeros survive only if the column is textCharacter(n)
Long texttext cell; wraps inside the cell rather than the rowMemo
Datea serial number plus a date cell formatDate
Datetimea serial number plus a date-time cell formatDateTime
Binarynot representable as dataGeneral
BooleanTRUE / FALSE (a real boolean cell)Logical
JSONa text cell; the quotes are part of the value(none)

Dialect differences

EXCEL is a file format and Visual FoxPro is a database server, so the target has to be told the types the file never carried - the rows below are where the two sides diverge.

Propertyin EXCELin Visual FoxPro
port—(file-based)
identifiersNot applicable; a cell holds exactly one value—
row limit—(driver dependent)
datesStored as a serial number; only the cell format makes it lo...Date (D), DateTime (T)
long text—Memo (M)
binaryOnly as text or an embedded object, not as a data columnGeneral (G)
separatorCells, not delimiters—
encodingUTF-8 internally, declared in the package—
typingReal cell types: text, number, date, boolean, error—
shapeMultiple sheets, each a flat gridTables of rows and columns
ceiling1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns per sheet; 255 sheets per w...—

No counterpart

  • EXCEL values of kind JSON have nowhere to go in Visual FoxPro.

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