[Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File

[Jay Eimer]

If it's actually a csv file, it will import into Excel regardless of the
extension.

The little squares are carriage returns, most likely.  Excel should
figure them out on its own.

Jay

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Group,

Does anyone know what a ".FNM" file is?  It should have been a ".CSV" 
supplied by the Texas state sales tax authority whose web site described
it as "comma 
delimited".  But when I downloaded it, I discovered that although the
data 
fields were in fact separated by commas, the lines were separated by
what 
displays in Notepad as a single vertical hollow rectangle (taller than
it is wide).  
If I place the cursor to the right of the rectangle and press Enter, the
next 
line wraps but the end of the previous line now has three of the
rectangles.  
I can't find a hollow rectangle in the standard ASCII character chart.
If 
there were only a few lines, I'd just clean it up manually while damning
all 
politicians.  But the file contains a line for every city, town and
minor village 
in Texas along with its sales tax rate.  At a guess from the file size, 
possibly 5000 lines.

73
Robert Downs - Houston
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