Make that NO trouble.

Joe

>Well, you can use FOPEN() and FGETS() to get the different lines of the test file.
>
>To determine columns, just figure out what would be used as a column separator and use AT() to figure that out.
>
>When the # of columns or the size of the line changes, I would assume a new table.
>
>I think by using these functions and a few more, you will have to trouble.
>
>Joe
>
>>I'm trying to figure out a way to parse tables, not the database
>>type but the regular text type, out of plain text. The problem
>>is basically where a text file might contain a table of stats or
>>data and the algorithm would first of all recognize the text file
>>as having one or more tables, and then decide how many columns the
>>table has. I was wondering if anybody knows how to go about solving
>>this problem. If you do, could you please give me some pointers on
>>this?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Fred Zhao
>>Systems Programmer
>>Market News Publishing