There are many alternatives to SA-fileUP. ASPupload is one less expensive. There are also many, many freebies (check out www.aspin.com). The problem with a roll-your-own approach is that you have to parse out the delimiters. One of the tools will do this for you and probably also give you binary transfer ability that you may need in the future..
>>>I have a need to accept a text file (Tab delimited) from the end user (browser) to write its contents to a database, and am just starting to research this on the web. I am sure I can handle the database side, but I haven't done the uploading of any type of file from the browser side. The user will specify the text file to upload.
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>>>Any info that will shorten my search will be appreciated. TIA
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>>This might help - it is what I use.
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>>http://www.softartisans.com/softartisans/saf.html
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>>An evaluation copy is available. If you need more information let me know.
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>>Tom
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>I'm downloading it now for testing. But at 5.44 Megs and transactional support it's probably overkill. We'll see how it works.
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>Although I've been reading some material, I believe if I can post the file contents as a string I can probably work just fine with that. These files won't be that long.