On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Marc Pitoniak wrote: >I understand that the "Copy" command is no longer available in sqlite3.
It was felt it was redundant. > >Is there anything comparable to "Copy" that will allow me to import text >files using an sql statement from my program? > >Putting it another way, using sqlite3.exe and the command ".import >import.txt sample" works just fine. Whats wrong with using sqlite3.exe? It's a perfectly valid way to initialise the database. > >Is there something comparable that I can do programmatically using SQL >syntax in my program? > >(I've tried various combinations of "insert into sample as select from >'import.txt'" with no success) Browse the source of sqlite3.exe, and copy the .import command from there if you're not happy using sqlite3.exe as is. Christian -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \