Michael Grant wrote: > Ok, well this made me want to check it out so I did. I dumped one of my > database tables with 149,517 records into a flat text file that was tab > delimited. The total size was 20,546KB (20MB).
I want to jump in here and say that this data is *not* tab delimited. It is column delimited. I.E. characters 1-4 are one value, characters 5-10 are another value, character 6 is a third and so on. Really old school this data is. And I may need to examine tens of thousands of records contained in dozens of files to see find which records in which file contain a value of 'F' at character (aka column) 26. I have been noting the great suggestions and plan to look over them when and I need to do this and|or have some spare time to play with it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295699 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
