Searching for txt file and importing to ms access

[Mark Line]

Once i have this working i was planing to kept all the txt files as logs, 
i'd have to give them a real name and stuff.

But thanks for you help so far

Mark


"Mike Meyer" <mwm at mired.org> wrote in message 
news:86br1kunnd.fsf at bhuda.mired.org...
> "Mark Line" <mline at abilitec.com> writes:
>> I'm managed to get some code to download a message from the email account
>> and save it to a text file, does any one have a link to some sample code 
>> to
>> search though a file until a string of characters is matched?  Or could
>> point me to some functions that may help me with this?
>
> datafile = open("c:\\myfile.txt", "r")
> data = datafile.read()
> datafile.close()
> start = data.index(myindicator)
>
> will leave start as the index in data where the the string in
> myindicator first appears. If you want the end of myendicator, use
> start = data.find(myindicator) + len(myindicator).
>
> Have you considered not saving the message to disk? You can manipulate
> it all in memory.
>
>> I've also managed to connect to my access database, and just print out a
>> field in a table, but I cant find anywhere on the web that will help me 
>> to
>> import data?  Any help would be great?!
>
> Can't help with that. The phrase "win32com" comes to mind, but I'm not
> a windows person.
>
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