How to Use the Query Designer to Send Output to a Text File

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

By using the Query Designer in Visual FoxPro, you can direct the output of the query to an ASCII text file. This article will outline the steps necessary to accomplish this.

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Step-by-Step Procedure

1. Set up a query in the Query Designer.

2. On the Query menu, click Query Destination, and then click the Screen button. Click To Text File, and specify the output file name.

3. Clear the Pause Between Screens check box, and click OK.

   in step 2. Note that the output is also echoed to the screen. The
   following code example can be used to suppress the output to the screen:

   DEFINE WINDOW win1 FROM 1,1 TO 5,5
   ACTIVATE WINDOW win1
   HIDE WINDOW win1
   DO QUERY1.QPR  &&replace QUERY1.QPR with your query name
   RELEASE WINDOW win1

   When this code is run, the output of the query will be sent to the file
   specified in step 2, and no output will be displayed on the screen.

REFERENCES

For more information on creating queries using the Query Designer, please see Chapter 6 in the "Visual FoxPro User's Guide."