Posted by McKirahan on 01/21/08 21:17

"Carolyn Marenger" <cajunk@marenger.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone point me in the direction of some good documentation on text
> parsing?
>
> I want to take a bunch of text files (rtf), read them in and dump the
> contents in a database. The files are effectively a flat file database,
> with I suspect some fairly intricate programming needed to process the
> files. Unfortunately, they are laid out for human readability, not data
> conversion.

A few questions.

How many is a "bunch"?
What would the target database be -- MySQL?
What table and column structures do you envision?
Perhaps simply a single table with two columns:
filename (key) and a memo field containing the data?
What is the purpose behind doing this?

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