Seth Galitzer
sgsax at ksu.edu
Wed Jan 28 08:09:25 CST 2004
Paul, Have a look at the downloads on my website. I have sample code for file I/O in VB. The code was written for Access, but is generic enough it should work in VB without a problem. I use DAO in there for database access, but you can easily substitue ADO if you prefer. Seth On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 03:28, paul.hartland at fsmail.net wrote: > To all, > > Can anyone tell me (preferably with sample code, if possible), what is the fastest way to import a .txt file into a predefined table in access via Visual Basic 6. > > My .txt file contains roughly 365,876 records with two fields Barcode, Price. This has to be imported into an Access table also containing two fields Barcode (text), Price (Number, Double, Fixed, 2 decimal places). > > The .txt file is comma delimited. Im using Access XP and Visual Basic 6.0 as the front-end. > > Thanks in advance for any help as, this project needs to be ready for Monday morning > > Paul Hartland > Freeserve AnyTime - HALF PRICE for the first 3 months - Save £7.50 a month > www.freeserve.com/anytime -- Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax Dept. of Plant Pathology Kansas State University