Thanks for the info... I am still a bit lost on this one. I have written a
Java application that will extract data from an Oracle database and stores
it as a comma separated file. Now I want to import this comma separated
file into my palm pilot and have it fill fields of a palm app that has drop
downs and text boxes, etc.
I have looked through the Java Conduit tutorial and there are samples for
reading a text file, but that is not quite what I am doing. How do I
convert this comma separated file file into a DB if I have to?
I looked at ThinkDB and it has a way of reading comma separated files in to
its thinkdb databases on the palm. Since there are no Files on the palm,
how do I locate this comma separated listing once I do get it to the palm?
Sorry for lots of questions, but I have not found any books that speak to
this topic.
Dean-O
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Subject: RE: Question about syncing comma separated file
> From: Dean Rochester
>
> I have a database application I am writing and the data comes to the Palm
> device as a comma separated file.
>
Maybe I'm don't understand what you are asking. What do you mean by "the
data comes to the Palm device as a comma separated file"? The normal way to
store data on a Palm device is to use a database. The only way you could
have a database be a "comma separated file" would be to store a single
string of data with commas separating the fields, If you have done that,
then you just read 1 record from the db, then parse that record into fields
based on where the commas are.
> The problem I have is that the
> columns of data is not the same each time.
That is no problem with a Palm database, which is just a collection of
records, each containing up to 64K of whatever you want to put there.
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