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Re: Dynamic reading of a file

  • Subject: Re: Dynamic reading of a file
  • From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:07:35 -0500
 
At 04:02 AM 5/28/2001, you wrote:
>The problem is, I know the file to read only at runtime and I have to
>read the file and display  the data for processing. Is there any way to
>read a file like this.


Do you know the layout in advance?  Is it just the filename that is variable?

If so, then simply ovrdbf the file name specified at compile time to the 
filename at runtime.

david


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