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Re: Reading FileMaker Pro files? [message #13645 is a reply to message #13553]

Fri, 20 November 1998 00:00

Michael Hartman
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Registered: November 1998

Junior Member

If you are running IDL on a PowerMac you can use the IDL Do_Apple_Script
command to send requests to a FileMaker Pro database for data. You can,
from inside an IDL procedure, send search strings to the database, and the
data returned to the IDL application will be filtered according to your
search criteria.

You can always export data, filtered or not, from FileMaker Pro to a
generic text file. Then you can have IDL read the text file and bring the
data in. You may have to endure a little overhead, to convert strings to
numerics and vice versa.

Eric Frans wrote:

> IDL people,
>
> Well I've got another question for today. :) I just got a request from
> someone to see if it's possible for IDL to read in files created using
> FileMaker Pro (a relational database program designed by Claris). After
> poking around the IDL 5.1 documentation it doesn't look possible, so I
> thought I'd check here to see if anyone has coded up something to do
> this.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> - Eric Frans

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		Reading FileMaker Pro files? By: Eric Frans on Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Reading FileMaker Pro files? By: mgs on Sat, 21 November 1998 00:00
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