File parsing

wxdqz

New Member
Hi

I have a problem which I am struggling to get over...

I have a text file which has rows of data, the rows are tab delimitted, and there are many more cols than I need to get out and put into my db.

I need to be able to read each line of the file, then just extract the data i need and put this into my table.

The main question is how; if I have a line with let's say 5 cols:

id
name
blank
blank
title

How do I read each line, skip over the two blank cols and just get the id, name and title. And then read each line until finished.

This is a little more complex than I thought...

Anyone help?

Regards

D
 
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