Changing the filename and extension will not change the contents of
the file if you are doing this in Windows Explorer. However, you must
set the option in WE to display file extensions, otherwise your users
will not be able to see them (and so could not change them).

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Apr 8, 4:00*pm, Mick Henn
wrote:
Very simple question here.

I'm implementing a process whereby I need to ask an operator to change both
the name and format of a file. The format must change from .csv to .txt

If i ask them to simply change the file extension while changing the name
rather than opening the file save as etc. is there any possibility of a
loss of data integrity?

The .csv file will contain a list of 32 alphanumeric characters separated
into 8 blocks of 4 by 7 dashes “-“.

Having tested this with a some codes and it seems to work fine. I just want
to make sure that I have all bases covered as these codes are business
critical and my job wouldn’t be worth getting this one wrong!

Any input you have would be greatly appreciated!