attaching a text file to a database

I am trying a small example of attaching a textfile to the biblio.mdb, I have set up a empty table called mytable with the fields
name (text)
age (text)
color (text)

I have also set up a .dat file like this
"name","age","color"
"mark","12","red"
"karen","39","blue"
"paul","33","green"
"cee-jay","87","yellow"
"brandon","35","pink"

I want to attach this text file into the database which I presume has a tabledef already (as I have made it in visdata)

I have tried this code to do the task but it won't work, any help would be appreciated. Could you also explain any code submitted in layman's terms as I am relatively new to db programming!.

Option Explicit
Dim mydb As Database
Dim myrs As Recordset


Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim tdf As TableDef

On Error GoTo errorhandler
Set tdf = mydb.CreateTableDef("mytable")
tdf.Connect = "c:\begDB\biblio.mdb"
tdf.SourceTableName = "c:\Mark\attachfile.dat"
mydb.TableDefs.Delete ("mytable")
mydb.TableDefs.Append tdf
Exit Sub


errorhandler:
MsgBox " crashed and burned baby!"
MsgBox = MsgBox & Err.Number
Exit Sub
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Set mydb = OpenDatabase("c:\begDB\biblio.mdb")

End Sub

Thanks again ! > locutus

Try this:

Code:

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  Dim db As Database
  Dim td As TableDef

  On Error Goto ErrHnd

  Set db = Workspaces(0).OpenDatabase("c:\begDB\biblio.mdb")

  set td = db.CreateTableDef("MyTable")
  td.Connect = "c:\Mark\"
  td.SourceTable = "attachfile.dat"
  db.TableDefs.Append td

  Exit Sub

ErrHnd:
  MsgBox Err.Description

---

Regards,

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Serge

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Thanks for replying to my query Serge !
When I try the code above I get the err
3170 Couldn't find installable ISAM
I know this is Index Sequential Access Method
but don't understand whats going on :-(
please could you spare a minute to help

Thanks > locutus

Do you have MS Access installed? If you do, then you should have that ISAM driver installed. To check if the driver is installed do the following:

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Select ODBC32 (or ODBC Data Sources) and double click on it.
3. Click on Add button

If you see something like this:

Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt;*.csv) then you have it installed. If you don't then you can get this driver from Microsoft's Web site. Unfortunately, I can't give you the exact link, but I think if you search their site, you can find it.


Regards,

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Serge

Software Developer
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[This message has been edited by Serge (edited 09-22-1999).]

Thanks again !
I did like you said and do have both the access driver and text driver installed.

This was meant to be a small test program to try out attaching text files to a pre defined, empty database. Do you have any further advice ?
Any help is much appreciated :-)

> locutus

Then the code above should work. I've checked the MSDN library and it doesn't even matter what version of DAO you use, the line:

td.Connect = "c:\Mark\"

should not give you a problem.

The only thing that I can think of is to try to reinstall Access.

Hope this will help.
Regards,


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Serge

Software Developer
[email protected]
[email protected]

In case you read this Serge I found what was missing.It should read

tdf.connect ="text;database =c:\Mark;"

when this bit was put in ie "text;database="
it worked fine !.
Ahhh you live and learn ( said in Homer type voice)
anyhow thanks for the pointers ->

locutus

Minor thing Serge, this linking does not use the ODBC drivers, it uses only the Jet ISAM support drivers, which are MStextXX.dll for text/html, MSxbseXX.dll for dBase&foxpro, etc.

(When you deply, make sure the ISAM dlls that you need to sue are packaged with your setup)



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