Possibly OT: Updating a text file remotely
- From: q3537wh@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 27 Dec 2006 12:38:59 -0800
This question may be a bit OT because 1) I don't know if it's actually
doable and 2) if so, I don't know if VB is the best tool to use. But
all I have is a little experience with server side programming with VB,
so here goes.
I have a plain text file on a computer. It is not exported from a DB.
It is not hosted on a web server. It's just a flat file sitting there.
It is variable length, space delimited, and it has several dates,
times, and IDs as columns. It's variable length because the IDs have
variable lengths.
I want a user to be able to visit a webpage, fill in the (for example)
start date and time and IDs (in order to identify the unique record) in
text boxes, submit the form, and update the (for example) expiry date
for that record. The webpage is not hosted on the same machine as the
text file.
Logically this is not that difficult. It's the text file (and the data
on it) not being readily accessible that I think is the biggest
obstacle.
Any thoughts or input is welcome. TIA.
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