Have a look at this and see if it help you out Chris http://www.developerfusion.com/show/961/ Matt
HouseDad wrote: >Hello all! > >I know I have not visited the group in a while and I apologize for >that. I usually end up confusing people when I try to answer a >question, anyway. > >I know I can probably find this on the net or a book somewhere, but >thought I would throw this out there and see if anyone was willing to >offer some feedback and/or code. > >Basically I still haven't utilized ADO yet in a program, as I haven't >actually had to write any new programs for a while, but I have a >small project I am going to start on tomorrow and I thought it would >be a good opportunity to start doing things the right way before >waiting for the big projects. > >Basically I have a text file where the records are a set length. I >want to open this text file with ADO to access the records. I can >read each record as one field and just extract the data I need from >it. > > >Any website or project you can point me to to get started? I am >assuming it will be fairly simple. I am assuming I just need to add >ADO to a project. Open the file, assign a record length, read a >record, read a value from within it, move on to next record to end of >file. > >I have written 100's of these programs before just not with ADO, I am >mainly asking you all in case there are any oddities with ADO I might >be unprepared for. But the ability to access a text file like a >database will come in really handy. > >By the way, for the bigger project when it comes up, whoever >suggested I use XML for my data files, that seems like a perfect >solution. XML will be next on my list of things to read up on! > >Thanks in advance. > >[C] > > > > > > >'// ======================================================= > Rules : http://ReliableAnswers.com/List/Rules.asp > Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbHelp/ > ======================================================= > Post : [email protected] > Join : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Leave : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >'// ======================================================= > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > '// ======================================================= Rules : http://ReliableAnswers.com/List/Rules.asp Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbHelp/ ======================================================= Post : [email protected] Join : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave : [EMAIL PROTECTED] '// ======================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
