Best data import approach

[Keith Clarke]

Why not just put the file into a variable, set the item delimiters to tab and away you go?

Just query the items of the first line to understand your (changing) column labels?
Best,
Keith..

On 30 Mar 2013, at 17:54, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com> wrote:

> Hello LC's,
> 
> I have a tab delimited text file(log file) that I need to manipulate every
> once in a while and extract data from it.  Is there a good way to read this
> directly into a datagrid and manipulate it from there or I am better off
> reading the file, loading it into a sqlite db and THEN manipulate it from
> there.
> 
> The text file I am reading is constantly changing so I can not just do a
> one time conversion, I will always have to read from this file.
> 
> This is for a desktop app, by the way....
> 
> Thanks in advance for your input!
> 
> SKIP
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