hi!

I am currently working on a project that will eventually be used for the internet mainly. Anyways, I am really stuck with trying to figure out the following question:

I have a flatfile database with a text file. What I want a certain subroutine to do is to find out how many lines first of all are in the text file, ( with \n being the divider of lines,) and then with each individual line, break up each thing of information (seperated by '|') and I can't figure out how to do that second step! I need it to be able to figure out how many variables it needs to make for each line and individual info. It would be great if anyone could help me figure out a way to do this!!


thanks a bunch! Andy

In reply to Getting info with a small flatfile db. by bladx

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