BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Importing data into a dBASE table          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Databases (Desktop) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message DA Brookes Guest Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:52 pm    Post subject: Importing data into a dBASE table Hi I'm trying to insert data from either a tab delimited or comma separated file, depending upon a user's selected file choice.. I'm using D6 Enterprise. Does anyone have any examples that could assist me please.. Regards Dave Back to top Scott Metzger Guest Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Importing data into a dBASE table DA Brookes wrote: Quote: Hi I'm trying to insert data from either a tab delimited or comma separated file, depending upon a user's selected file choice.. I'm using D6 Enterprise. Well, doing this through your rdbms greatly depends on the databse you are using (which you failed to mention). However, if you need to do this by hand take a look at TStringList. With this you can read in a file, set what the delimiters are, and then writer the data to a database. I recently used TStringList to parse some data that a Perl programmer said "Well that would be quite difficult". Scott Metzger Back to top Mike Shkolnik Guest Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Importing data into a dBASE table 1. you may use TBatchMove component and link your dBase table with defined ASCII-table (see help for BDE how to define scheme file for ASCII) 2. parse text file and load every parsed value 3. use third-party component - for example, see SMImport (http://www.scalabium.com/smi) -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik E-mail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] WEB: http://www.scalabium.com "DA Brookes" <david.brookes (AT) removespaminterserveprojects (DOT) com> wrote in message news:3ffc1cc3 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: Hi I'm trying to insert data from either a tab delimited or comma separated file, depending upon a user's selected file choice.. I'm using D6 Enterprise. Does anyone have any examples that could assist me please.. Regards Dave Back to top Bill Todd (TeamB) Guest Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Importing data into a dBASE table On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:50:30 -0500, Scott Metzger <NOSPAMScottCMetzger (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote: Quote: Well, doing this through your rdbms greatly depends on the databse you are using (which you failed to mention). The subject says :into a dBase table". :) -- Bill (TeamB) (TeamB cannot respond to questions received via email) Back to top Bill Todd (TeamB) Guest Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Importing data into a dBASE table You can read a comma delimited ASCII file with the BDE ASCII driver. See http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,15892,00.html for details. This will not work for tab delimited files. You can roll your own routine quite easily using a TStringList to parse the record. See the DelimitedText property of TStringList in the on-line help. -- Bill (TeamB) (TeamB cannot respond to questions received via email) Back to top Ignacio Vazquez Guest Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Importing data into a dBASE table Mike Shkolnik wrote: Quote: 3. use third-party component - for example, see SMImport (http://www.scalabium.com/smi) I second SMImport and suggest using TDbf for the .dbf files: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tdbf -- Cheers, Ignacio Back to top DA Brookes Guest Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Importing data into a dBASE table Thanks for the suggestions guys... 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