Adding a header to a CSV file
 

Hi,

I have a number of CSV files I wish to query using ADO, the only
problem is there are no headers in the CSV files. The obvious option is
to open them in excel and manually enter the headers, howerver there
are more than 65536 records so this is not possible.

Does anyone have any good ideas? any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

Adding a header to a CSV file
 

If it only a few files that you need to change, NotePad/WordPad can open
these
Otherwise, you can import them into Access. Number of rows is not a concern
then.
Make you changes then export, if you need to keep the .csv format.

NickHK

"Tom Cameron" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a number of CSV files I wish to query using ADO, the only
problem is there are no headers in the CSV files. The obvious option is
to open them in excel and manually enter the headers, howerver there
are more than 65536 records so this is not possible.

Does anyone have any good ideas? any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

Adding a header to a CSV file
 

If you know what the headers should be then you could just construct your SQL using the default field names provided by ADO and
alias the names to the "correct" values...

Tim



"Tom Cameron" wrote in message ups.com...
Hi,

I have a number of CSV files I wish to query using ADO, the only
problem is there are no headers in the CSV files. The obvious option is
to open them in excel and manually enter the headers, howerver there
are more than 65536 records so this is not possible.

Does anyone have any good ideas? any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

Adding a header to a CSV file
 

Do they all use the same layout?

If yes, create a file with that single header line.

Then shell to DOS and merge the files using an old DOS command.

Go to the folder that contains the .CSV files and header file and issue this
command:

copy Header.txt + somefile.csv somefileNEW.csv






Tom Cameron wrote:

Hi,

I have a number of CSV files I wish to query using ADO, the only
problem is there are no headers in the CSV files. The obvious option is
to open them in excel and manually enter the headers, howerver there
are more than 65536 records so this is not possible.

Does anyone have any good ideas? any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

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Dave Peterson

Adding a header to a CSV file
 

Thanks for you help everyone, I've used the default ADO headers to get
this to work.

Cheers,
Tom


Dave Peterson wrote:
Do they all use the same layout?

If yes, create a file with that single header line.

Then shell to DOS and merge the files using an old DOS command.

Go to the folder that contains the .CSV files and header file and issue this
command:

copy Header.txt + somefile.csv somefileNEW.csv






Tom Cameron wrote:

Hi,

I have a number of CSV files I wish to query using ADO, the only
problem is there are no headers in the CSV files. The obvious option is
to open them in excel and manually enter the headers, howerver there
are more than 65536 records so this is not possible.

Does anyone have any good ideas? any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

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Dave Peterson