I want to create a new table by importing a tab-delimited text file. However,
I've got a lot of other text files, formatted the same way, which will also
need to be imported into the same table. How do I select more than one file
at a time to import?
Thanks
Jeff
I'm not aware of a way to tell Access to import more than a single file at a
time. That said, there'd be no reason you couldn't come up with a procedure
that ran through a list of files and imported them one-by-one.
Consider another approach, however. If you import to a temporary table,
then append from that table into your permanent table, you can import any
number of files (sequentially, of course).
Good luck
Jeff Boyce
<Access MVP>
> I want to create a new table by importing a tab-delimited text file. However,
> I've got a lot of other text files, formatted the same way, which will also
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> Thanks
> Jeff
Jeff,
Assuming you have already done it oce manually, so you have saved an
import spec, you can do it at once for all files in a folder through
this simple piece of code:
Sub Import_Files_From_Folder()
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set fldr = fs.GetFolder("C:\MyFolder\")
Set fls = fldr.Files
For Each fl In fls
DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim, _
"MySpecificationName", "MyTable", fl.Path
Next fl
End Sub
Replace the folder, spec and table names with the actual ones, and off
you go.
HTH,
Nikos
> I want to create a new table by importing a tab-delimited text file. However,
> I've got a lot of other text files, formatted the same way, which will also
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> Thanks
> Jeff
Nikos Yannacopoulos - 10 Dec 2004 14:37 GMT
Of no particular importance, just being "nostalgic":
Anybody remember the black, character mode DOS (as in Disk Operating
System, not Denial Of Service!) screens? Well, in one of those, one
could simply type:
Copy *.txt allfiles.txt
and DOS would copy the contents of all .txt (or whatever) files in the
folder in one file... then the import process would be a one step one!
Isn't it funny that some things were easier back then? Anybody tried to
mass-rename files in Windows?
Nikos
> Jeff,
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