Darren DICK
darrend at nimble.com.au
Sun May 7 08:03:26 CDT 2006
Hi all I am doing some pro-bono work for some General orphanages and AIDS orphanages in Thailand (Feel free to email me off list for any info - Shameless plug - Yes we are always looking for sponsors - another shameless plug) I have just been handed a CD of Publisher files with photos and a small 'blurb' about each child There are about 600 on this CD alone Each MS Publisher 'record' contains the photo and a short 'blurb' that looks like this DUANPEN OONBOON <-- Childs Full Name Gender: Male Born: 23rd June 1995 Grade: 2005-2006- Primary 4 Favourite Subject: English Favourite Sport: Volley Ball Favourite Food: Fried Rice Favourite Colour: Red Child Ref. # MCS-072 You can see there is 9 or so lines of text for each record. And it's all in one text field - an MS Publisher text box And I have to get each line out of that one field and send the first line to the FullName field of the dB the second line to the Gender field of the dB. The third line to the DoB field of the dB etc etc Essentially read that text box line by line and have the contents of each line 'mapped' to a field in a table Any suggestions? I'm also open to suggestions of getting the images out of publisher and onto the HardDrive in some meaningful name format If you need a copy of the Publisher file - I am more than willing to share a snip off line Many many thanks in advance Darren