CFFile would be the thing. If this is on an NT box you should look into the
Microsoft text ODBC driver. I've never used it, but others have had pretty good
success. If it can't read & write files _exactly_ like the one you've shown (I
don't know how flexible it is), then it should be easy to modify the Perl script
to work.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Erika Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: CF, Perl, and .txt datasource
>I have a CF site, which also has a Perl Forums application. The user
>authentication process in the Forums is run from a .txt file that looks like
>this:
>
>password|username|securitylevel|firstname|lastname|email|status
>
>The records are separated by a carriage return. The user authentication
>process I use at the front of the site for CF login has the same fields in
>an Access table (username, password, security, firstname, last name, email,
>status). What I'd like to do, is upon registration of a new user - update
>the .txt file above with the new user registration information from the
>Access database. Does this make sense? I want to eliminate users having to
>register for a username at the CF application, and then again at the Perl
>application.
>
>I don't have access to cfcontent or cffile... can I still do this?
>
>Erika Foster
>engineering-environmental Management
>Applications Developer
>(505) 866-1654
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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