parsing flat files

[carpeliam]

I'm in charge of exporting one file from one system (C++) and importing it into another. As I have control over both, I was wondering what format would be best. My first thought was XML, but I wasn't sure if there were any pre-existing XML parsers for VB. Any thoughts for the best solution (XML or otherwise, if XML is not the best tool) are quite welcome.

Thank you for your time. Liam Morley
lmorley@wpi.edu
"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."

 

[DJTN]

What kind of file? If your passing text data XML is great. Just create you a DLL file parsing the strings from the XML.
Todd Norris
Hope this helps !

 

[carpeliam]

Do you know of any XML parsers that are out there? I'm sure somebody has done this before, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel... <p>Liam Morley<br><A HREF="mailto:"></A><br>&quot;light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;

 

[jhlautomation]

This may help?
During my time as an EDI programmer for a warehouse we always use fixed field length data interchange.

Most systems will handle ASCI fixed length fields and import
into any file format you wish DBF or DAT or whatever.

Visual Foxpro and even the old Fox 2.5/2.6 are made for this

Regards
Jack