Importing Data From An (awkward!) CSV Text File
Aug 22, 2006
I've had a look through the many topics on text importing, but can't find anything specific to my problem.
One of our suppliers has started offering their catalogue as a CSV file via e-mail. For now, I am saving the file to my computer, and wanting to import it into a database.
the table is a bit awkward, as it has "useless" data in the first field. Here is the beginning of one as an example:
VIP Computer Centre Ltd. Trade Price List. 22 August 2006 3:37 PM
ORDER CODE,PROD GROUP,DESCRIPTION,WTY,BOXED IN,1 OFF,5 OFF,20 OFF,UNIT
7719-C,BAREBONE SYSTEMS,JW MINIQ 430AV INSTANT-ON B/B,0,1,50,49.75,49.25,EACH
I imported the data via the Get External Data feature into a new table. This worked fine. I then changed a couple of values, and re-imported the data, this time selecting to import it to the new table. It came up with an error, saying 295 records were lost due to key violations. I then realised that this only appended the data on the end of the table, which isn't what I want.
Here is what I am trying to accomplish:
The field names are created from the titles in row 2 of the CSV file
The table is updated by importing the latest CSV file, so that any price alterations are changed, and any new products added (but identical data is ignored). If one field is needed as a constant, this would be the ORDER CODE field
Field 2 (PROD GROUP) becomes a combo list box (probably based on another table - so the table contains the categories, e.g. BAREBONE SYSTEMS, and the text from the CSV file is converted to the appropriate ID number)
Is any of this possible? If so, how?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give!
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May 16, 2013
Here is the import statement I'm using:
DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim, "IT315 Import Specification_txt", _
"IT315", "D:4533 Hires Rehire Status ChangeIT315.txt"
I can manually transfer the data ie thru File --> Get External Data etc but I can't seem to get the above statement to work --- with the same specification!!
The details are in the attached doc file.
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Aug 7, 2006
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origination date,
loan term,
lo type,
etc....
Then it starts over with the next loan. There are over 17,000 lines.
How can I import the text file and have the loans go across. Even when I have imported the file using comma delimited it still imports them going down. Even if the comma delimited would work, I would still have issues because Access would not know when the new loan began to move it to the next row.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Sorry for my rambling.
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Hey,
I have a text file i wish to link up to one of my tables. The problem is that even if i try to import data from that file i get "Text file specifikation field separator matches decimal separator or text delimiter." message and after that one an err that the file cant be imported. Does anyone know why?
Thats the sample of my file:
'PV','045.302','KROG VEN S PNEU POG','JOHN-VALVE + AIR TORQUE','JV-9301NC-BW + AT051DA','','','','15','8','VANI','','1.4408','PTF E','ZRK'
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Hi! There was a problem that one of the members had a while back, and the solution was never posted. Now, I am having the exact same problem. Here's the link.
http://forums.aspfree.com/microsoft-access-help-18/importing-multiple-text-files-125634.html
When I compile, it works ok, but then when I click my command button, it says I can't import this file. Any ideas?
KellyJo
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Hello - I want to import a text file into a table in a database. The text file looks like this:
00001 06006025 1420 0010 Health Insurance 7
00001 06006025 1425 0010 Life Insurance 7
00001 06006025 1430 0010 Disability 7
00001 06006025 1440 0010 Profit Sharing 7
There is no consistent delimiter. The text field is making things complicated because there is no accurate way to separate the text field from the last number in each line ('7') which needs to be stored in a different column.
Is there a way to insert quotations arond the text string so the quotation mark can be used to distinguish it when importing into excel or a database table. This may work because the starting position of the text string is constant. The ending position would have to be defined as the place where the number appears ('7' in this case). Then, quotations need to be placed around the text string.
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Hi,
I have a text file with comma separated values. What I want is a single access query to import this text file into an access table. I know this can be done through import text wizard in access - but what I need is a single query.
I have done the same thing for transferring oracle data to an access table - but for text file to access, I am getting -7778 error.
This is the query I have written
SELECT * into MY_ACCESS_TBL from [odbc;Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)};Dbq=MY_TEXT_FILE_PATH;].[MY_TEXT_FILE.txt];
Please help!!
Regards,
Suneesh
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Hi
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Field Delimter: |
Language: English
[code]....
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Code:
09 19192 00010212b1 5010570223
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