Hello. I wish to open a flatfile test.txt containing a single record and display this in a html table. Problem is that I only want to display certain fields and these fields, while always delimited with the same char are sometimes written on a newline. I can handle the nice one-record-per-row flatfile db's but this is a step beyond me. Any chance of a push in the right direction, it would be appreciated
Thanks!

***** BEGIN CONTENTS test.txt *******
SMQ2#TEST_2PASS TEST_671 TEST_ADV TEST_LGA TEST_ROOS#2#0
testguy#2002-07-24#13:47#testguy#2002-09-12#12:05#I295
Selective retest only
*#*
1
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
1# elapsedMinutes
elapsedMinutes#elapsedMinutesPass2
1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
**** RECORD EOF ***********


The fields I want to extract and display are..

Line 1
SMQ2 -> Batch Suffix ID
TEST_2PASS -> Associated Operations

Line 2
testguy -> Record Created
2002-07-24 -> Record Created Date
13:47 ->Record Created Time
testguy -> Record Last Updated
2002-09-12 -> Record Last Updated Date
12:05 -> Record Last Updated Time
I295 Selective retest only -> Record Description

In reply to Difficult flatfile db record by testguy

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