Kim, There are several things that might be of help.
A combination of Unix tools (ported to Win32 of course) grep & wc (grep can search for text/regular expression and wc can count lines, characters etc. This will find out the stats you want; but won't automatically update the files. You can create text files; but would need to import them. Search google for the win32 ports of these utilites. I don't have an exact URL. Perl is an excellent language for parsing text. You should be able to use it to count up the statistics you are looking for, and then create/update a document like it sounds like you want to do. http://www.activestate.com HTH Arron ======================================= Arron S. King Network & Systems Administrator Ohio Dominican University [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 614.251.4515 f: 614.252.2650 -----Original Message----- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Very OT - txt handling Hi there, I came across your address on the net, and I would like to ask you a quick programming question. Could you point me out to a sort of code that can count the number of characters and lines in a txt file and transfer that to exell or access? I have the following example (txt) 45 14:53:52 ENTRANCE ARTS (2) ACCESS GRANTED KIM SCHOTANUS (16788937) 46 15:14:52 EXIT ARTS GRANTED 47 16:00:48 ENTRANCE ARTS (2) ACCESS GRANTED PROCOPIO ALB (07723137) 48 16:52:24 EXIT ARTS (3) ACCESS GRANTED BECKERS PAUL (04906723) ... In this example the first line is the line number, that is reset to 00 after 99, then there is the time, the action performed -ENTRANCE ARTS (2) ACCESS GRANTED- and the name and permission code. Line 46 is a special command, this is when someone overrides the system (which happens quite often) after each 20 lines there is a blank line and then a line with the date The idea is to find/create a little code that pushes the data in this txt file to exell on a daily basis. Do you know of any code that could do this? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
