Query txt file

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Kevin M.

There's got to be an easy way...
I use FrontPage but my server does not have the
extensions. It is ASP enabled. I don't have Access or any
sort of database experience.
What I want to do is enable a visitor to enter a code and
get info back.

I would have a comma (or tab) delimited text file like
this:
ABC,ABC Company,123 Main St,This Town CA 90010
CED,CED Inc, 345 Main St,Some Town NY 10010

The customer would type ABC into a form and get back
ABC Company
123 Main St.
This Town CA 90010

Any help appreciated. I'm good at copying scripts. Thanks.
 
<<<<I'm good at copying scripts.>>>>

I guess that would be the easy way that there's just gotta be.

Bob Lehmann
 
Front Page 2002 has a Database Interface Wizard which sets
up an ASP page that acts as a submission form.
The form receives the information from the visitor and
puts it into an underlying database table.
I have'nt tried it, but since you dont have Access, you
might be able to use an Excell Form. Excell Forms are
actually simplified databases.
It might be easier to ask your ISP to download and install
the Front Page extensions, and then turn them on. My ISP
runs Unix and I can use Front Page.
 
You can not use Access or Excel on a Unix/Linux server, only a Windows IIS server, in which case you
don't have to have the Access App, as FP will create a Access database if the option is selected.

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Thanks for this tip. I'll try Excel forms.
Installing the FP extensions is not an option,
unfortunately. We had to strip out everything to do with
extensions because they were causing conflicts with
asp.net code coming from our IT guys, which by the way,
could program this in their sleep in five minutes but the
IT boss won't let them. Web stuff is a low priority, you
see.
 
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