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Export Visual FoxPro table to TXT using dynamic filename with current date

Want to export data from Visual FoxPro table to TXT using current date as file name?

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Export data from Visual FoxPro table to TXT file using dynamic filename with date and time

Login to Visual FoxPro -> Choose Visual FoxPro table -> Set TXT filename template including date -> Export Visual FoxPro to TXT using current date as file name

Choose Visual FoxPro and logon.

“Export From Table” for “TXT to Visual FoxPro“.

Select TXT file type.

1. Choose Visual FoxPro table.

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 table data to TXT file. Dynamically created TXT file name using present system time.

After exporting, you can view output TXT files.


More about Visual FoxPro to TXT converter

Visual FoxPro → TXT reference

Type mapping

Value kindin Visual FoxProin TXT
IntNumeric(10,0)1234, or right-aligned in a fixed-width column
BigintNumeric(19,0)9007199254740993
DecimalNumeric(p,s)1234.56
FloatFloat1.234e+10
TextCharacter(n)written as-is; padding depends on the chosen layout
Long textMemowritten as-is
DateDatewhatever the writer chose
DatetimeDateTimewhatever the writer chose
BinaryGeneralnot representable
BooleanLogicalY / 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.

Propertyin Visual FoxProin TXT
port(file-based)—
identifiers—None by convention
row limit(driver dependent)—
datesDate (D), DateTime (T)Whatever the writer produced; no convention is guaranteed
long textMemo (M)—
binaryGeneral (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
shapeTables of rows and columnsFree 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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