You could write down the field names to be used in the Access table, then
open the file with word.   Do multiple search and replace actions [search
for name: replace with nothing].  This would remove the field names, save
the document as *.txt then import into an access table.  The whole thing
should not take more than 20 minutes.

Mike Buraczewski
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pearson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Access Import Question


|>A query for all the Access gurus out there. I have been given a text
|>file that needs to be imported into a database for later search and
|>retrieval. It has 869 records vertically aligned in the following
|>format:
|>
|>...
|
|>Thanks,
|>Ernie Goens
|
|Ernie,
|
|I think you will have to write a VB routine to accomplish this, but
|hopefully some other list members will know an built-in way of doing it.
|
|If every block has exactly the same field names you could just loop
|through the source data, assigning field values as found, and creating a
|new record when you encounter a blank line.
|
|If some field names might be missing or in a different order, it would
|be more robust to create an array of field names and while looping
|through the source data, search the array of field names for the current
|field name, and assign the field value in your access table accordingly.
|
|Unfortunately I don't have time at the moment to try to code this but
|post again if you need more help
|
|Joe
|
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