--- In [email protected], "jimbobob21" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it.
I deal with delimited files all the time. ;-) My dillema was
that I wanted to be able to access a particular record in a text file
without having to re-write the file. I have never used the random
method before, except in GWBASIC when I was dealing with 3800 byte
non-delimited records and 3800 was too big for a record size in
GWBASIC so I actually read it a byte at a time and just used a
variable to count it myself, but these other programs only involved
me writing or not writing a record as I was inspecting the incoming
data, not actually changing the original file itself, or simply
generating an error report. In the past the error report was used as
a guide to go back and change the original data, and we're getting
away from that and changing the data in the file as it is checked for
errors.
I could convert the text files to a database, but for this
project that's just not a very good option because the data comes to
me as a text file and the customer gets a text file after I have
processed the data, and for other reasons.
Thanks again for your input and nice to have met you!
Chris
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