Warning: This is completely untested. I don't have MS Access, and I never use Win32:OLE, but at least I know what it is.

I found the VBA script (emdeded in POD in the program below), to do this here, and I've made an attempt to convert is to Perl/OLE to give you a starting point. (But don't ask me questions cos I won't know the answers. Well, you can try, but you've been warned:)

use strict; use warnings; use Win32::OLE; =VBA Dim accessApp as Access.Application Dim strDB as string Dim strImport as string set accessApp = new Access.Application strDB = "C:\Test\MyDatabase.mdb" strImport = "R:\Download\ImportFile.txt" accessApp.OpenCurrentDatabase strDB accessApp.DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim, , "TableX", strImport, -1 accessApp.CloseCurrentDatabase =cut ## connect to Access my $access = Win32::OLE->new 'Access.Application' ) or die "Cannot create Access object:$!\n"; ## connect to the database $access->OpenCurrentDatabase( 'x:\The\path\to\your\database.mdb'); ## run the import command $access->DoCmd->TransferText( ',', ## The delimiter 0, ## First line contains field names. (1 if yes) 'YourTableName', ## The name of the table to import to 'x:/the/path/to/the/file.csv', ## file to import -1 ########### Haven't a clue what this is, ## but you should be able to work it out by looking at the ## Text Transfer menu ) or die $^E; ## and done $access->Quit();

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In reply to Re: accessing MS Access databases by BrowserUk
in thread accessing MS Access databases by memo.garciasir

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