Re: newbie question: import a table from a text file

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 cwu@geocities.com wrote: > how do i import a tab delimited text file to an informix table? Is there a trailing blank at the end of the line, or is it tab separated text? If it is tab delimited, then simply set DBDELIMITER="<tab>" (where the <tab> needs to be an actual tab, of course) and use load. If it is tab separated, you may be OK with dbload, or you may need to add the tab at the end, or ... > and > what about fixed width text files? DBLOAD handles those. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <witticism.h>