>>I've done this a while back in Visual FoxPro where this is rather a trivial task because you can import the comma delimited data easily into a database.
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>>With .Net you're stuck reading hte data line by line and parsing the data as a string using Split. Not that difficult but reasonably easy to do as well. Once you have the data you can stick it into a database and summarize it fairly easily.
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>Not true Rick!

Well, sure. I could also use the VFP ODBC driver for this I suspect. Point is that natively .Net or its datasources are not that good at doing this.

It's not that big of a deal. Actually I think that importing using string reading is probably more efficient and not that difficult at all... The hardest part - and this is the case with any tool for that matter - is ascertaining the structure and making sure you're reading the right values into the right fields <g>...

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