Mods would most likely be ignoring certain fields, possibly changing the format of a field, etc.

Pete


>Append From first springs to mind. But you say 'modifications' - depending on those mods, there can be many ways of doing it. Append to a cursor and then Insert into the table, read low-level and Insert into table, etc.
>
>>I need to add records to a database table (with some modifications) from an ASCII comma
>>delimited file created by another application. How do you do this?
>>
>>Thanks