Well, I had not thought of a columnar text file; I was using ini out of instinct; but I need to pull data from individual fields without knowing their value. I suppose that could be done with vectors? I am good to go with ini files, but anything beyond that is going to be a learning curve.
--- In [email protected], "brucexs" <bswit...@...> wrote: > > Is there some reason you are not just exporting three column text file > > year month value > > That being said, it's been a long (long) time since I worked with Access (try > version 1.0!), but surely it has an odbc driver? > > > > --- In [email protected], "brother.gabriel" <brgabriel@> wrote: > > > > I was actually looking at those. I am trying to get information out of a > > M$ Access database so I can use it. So far I have been exporting one of > > the forms which I created in the database and then regexing it with NoteTab > > to create an initial ini file that I could work with using PP. Then I ran > > into the problem where I need to access the data from two years at once, so > > it messed up my ini scheme. I don't know anything about xml, really, > > except that one can use "categories" and "subcategories". I have thought > > about using an ini file for each year, which is nice, but I don't have any > > way to specify the year automatically when I export it from Acess. The > > most efficient thing to do would be to simply access the database itself > > using PP, but I don't think PP's database plugins will do that - don't they > > only use OBDC? Is this something I could do with the COM plugin? > > > > --- In [email protected], "entropyreduction" > > <alancampbelllists+yahoo@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Brother Gabriel-Marie <brgabriel@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello y'all! Is there a powerpro plugin or script designed to write to > > > > xml files? I am looking for something as easy as the ini plugin. > > > > Really, I need to create a file where I save values arranged by month, > > > > which is in turn arranged by year. I think an xml file would work > > > out, no? > > > > > > Or one ini file per year, within which one section per month > > > > > > Or consider one of the database plugins: > > > > > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/files/Plug-ins_and_add-ons/0_Interfaces/Database_Interfaces/ > > > > > > probably sqlite. > > > > > >
