RE: extracting data from a huge text file (my update on it)

2002-01-28 Thread Andre Turrettini
Thanks Sima, Thats some pretty cool functionality. Thanks again for debugging it. I'll look forward to using it. DRE -Original Message- From: Sima Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:48 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: extracting data from a huge text fil

RE: extracting data from a huge text file (my update on it)

2002-01-28 Thread Sima Lee
e this update helps Regards, Sima -Original Message- From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: extracting data from a huge text file Chris, Sima, Can you keep me posted on what you figure out with that java io

RE: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Andre Turrettini
ECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: extracting data from a huge text file Hi, I have had it complied but have not try it out yet. If you want please contact me off list, because I cannot attach any file here. Regards, Sima -Original Message- From:

RE: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Sima Lee
IDEAL for you. > http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=22277&method=full > > DRE > > -Original Message- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Giminez
MAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:42 AM > Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file > > > > the format of the text file is not very consistent. It's a comma delimited > list, but the last field > > is itself a comma delimited list and fi

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Giminez
acromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=22277&method=full > > DRE > > -Original Message- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file > > > How d

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Jim McAtee
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:42 AM Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file > the format of the text file is not very consistent. It's a comma delimited list, but the last field > is itself a comma delimited list and fields 8 and 9 contain

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Giminez
ent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:56 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file > > > It's called CFX_ReadLine and with an initial test, it looks like it's > going > to do the trick. > thanks very much!! > > Chris > > > > >

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Lewis Sellers
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:46:14 -0600, "Ron Hornbaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >okay, min, put DOWN the cough syrup, and step away from the keyboard. You >know, if you didn't write such goshdarned excellent code, people would >think you were nuts. ;) There is a bee on my keyboard. Ekkk. Oh

RE: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Shawn Grover
: Chris Giminez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file It's called CFX_ReadLine and with an initial test, it looks like it's going to do the trick. thanks very much!! Chris > > >I&#

RE: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-25 Thread Andre Turrettini
This should be IDEAL for you. http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=22277&method=full DRE -Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file How doe

RE: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Ron Hornbaker
> Been a while since I used it but I wrote a cfx called... hmm.. I don't > recall what it was called /-) ... anyway, the cfx was to read in log > files one line at a time. > > Which is what it does, one carriage-deliminated line per call, not the > entire file all at once. > > It's somewhere at ht

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Jim McAtee
- Original Message - From: "Lewis Sellers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:59 PM Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:10:10 -0700, "Jim McAtee" > &

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Lewis Sellers
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:10:10 -0700, "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How does it accomplish this when you want to loop over the contents of a >large file? Does it keep the file open, or when you call it to read the >250,000th line, has it opened and closed and read through the file 249,9

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Chris Giminez
It's called CFX_ReadLine and with an initial test, it looks like it's going to do the trick. thanks very much!! Chris > > >I'm trying to retrieve data and put it into a database from a text file. > >The text file is over 100MB with (I'm guessing) around 260,000 records, each >record contai

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Jim McAtee
llers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:54 PM Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:09:54 -0800, "Chris Giminez" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I&#

RE: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread stas
Yes, an MS SQL DTS package, or even the import wizard will get that data in a blink of an eye. Access will work as well, slower albeit. -Original Message- From: Randy Adkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] You can use Perl or Visual Basic and write an EXE to handle it. I had a huge file as

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Lewis Sellers
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:09:54 -0800, "Chris Giminez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to retrieve data and put it into a database from a text file. >The text file is over 100MB with (I'm guessing) around 260,000 records, each record >contains 85 >fields. > >I tried to create a conditional

RE: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Tyler M. Fitch
Chris, You're cfhttp-ing to the file so it might not be local to you, but if it is and if you're on CF5 try to make a dynamic datasource connection to the .txt file and query it that way. I don't know the syntax for a .txt cfquery connectstring attribute off the top of my head - sorry, t *

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Randy Adkins
would be suitable solution. - Original Message - From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:19 PM Subject: Re: extracting data from a huge text file > Forget about using CF to read a fi

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Jim McAtee
Forget about using CF to read a file that big unless you've got a lot of memory in the server. If CF is your only tool for actually getting the data into your database, you might use something like Perl to first break the file up into many smaller files, then run those through CF. If you're a bi

Re: extracting data from a huge text file

2002-01-24 Thread Don Vawter
what database? - Original Message - From: "Chris Giminez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:09 PM Subject: extracting data from a huge text file > I'm trying to retrieve data and put it into a database from a text file. > The text f