On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:38 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Need a TDataset component to handle sequential files in Delphi 5
Delphi 5 comes with an exisiting BDE option that handles comma- or tab- delimited sequential text files. Nothing more is needed for the BDE to read and write sequential files so long as you provide a 'schema file' that correctly describes the layout of your text-based data. A CSV data file named data.txt used with a TTable component will automatically have its TableType property set to ttASCII (this happens on the basis of the .txt extension). The BDE then knows the data is not in dBase or Paradox etc. format and looks for a schema file named data.sch which must be structured as ini file format. The schema provides the equivalent of TFieldDefs for random access files. You can easily get the details about the simple structure of the required .sch file from a Google search. Howard Page-Clark
