Re: Importing large text file

2002-01-03 Thread Steve Rapaport
Greg, I agree with Tom H. PHP can also do an excellent job of this, even as a standalone script (ie no web server interaction). And you won't have to figure out how to load the DBI module! I'll adapt an example from something else I did: (Warning, not tested code...) #!/usr/local/bin/php Greg

RE: Importing large text file

2002-01-03 Thread Haapanen, Tom
Greg, Your best bet is to feed the data into Perl -- relatively simple Perl script can deal with variances you indicate, and feed the data into MySQL using DBI. Tom Haapanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Greg Peretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 03 January, 2