Jim,
Thanks for the lightening quick reply.
I totally forgot about the carraige return. I will work with your method as
it sure looks sound.
Thanks again
Terry Troxel
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim McAtee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Terry - it-werks.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Reading a file one line at a time with CFfile?
> With CFFILE you're only able to read the entire file into a variable.
Treat
> the file contents as a list, using carriage returns and/or line feeds as
> delimiters. Because of the way CF handles lists and delimiters, the
> following code works regardless of whether carriage returns, line feeds or
> any comibination of the two were used between lines.
>
> <cffile action="read" file="c:\myfile.txt" variable="x">
> <cfloop index="line" list="#x#" delimiters="#Chr(13)##Chr(10)#">
> <!--- do whatever you need with 'line' --->
> ...
> </cfloop>
>
> Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry - it-werks.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 3:33 PM
> Subject: Reading a file one line at a time with CFfile?
>
>
> > I have a text file that is 1315 characters wide, which is an exported
> Cobol
> > database that I reed to go through one record/line at a time and do some
> > mid() calls to retreive certain fields and insert them into an Access
> table.
> > I am unsure how to walk thru the file line by line. I do know how to use
> > mid() though. I could sure use some help here.
> >
> > Terry Troxel
>
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