Recent content by SimoFin

Dear Sleipnir... I'm lost. If you could find in in you time to help me a bit more, I would be more than thankfull. I've been trying to find help on this from my books, but they haven't been of any use. Can you please give me more code? Simo Savonen sipesa@utu.fi

Thanks alot for these tips! All I have to do now is pick up my PHP bible, and read up on arrays and such. Simo Savonen sipesa@utu.fi

Here, I fetched the tags and their meanings for you, tell me if this helps. It just goes to showing that there are quite a few of these tags, and only a number of them are actually used in each book. It very rare for a book to include all tags. ** START OF RECORD IB ISBN AV UK AVAILABILITY...

You quessed it right... let me explain a bit more: yes, the ** begins a unique book, IB is ISBN, of course BI means Binding AU stands for Authors... etc. The line breaks do count for each field/column ending. Normally, I'm used to importing this type of data as such...

The server that I'm using has support for PHP, Perl and Python... but I'm a total newbie on these, except on PHP, which I've just recently started to get familiar with. Simo Savonen sipesa@utu.fi

I need some advice on how to import the following kind of text data into mysql: ( it's a long list, but bear with me) ** IB 1859060196 BI PAPERBACK AU SHINE, NORMAN BC VXFN CO UK PD 19990923 NP 128 RP 9.99 RI 9.99 RE 9.99 PU CONNECTIONS BOOK PUBLISHING YP 1999 TI NUMEROLOGY TI YOUR CHARACTER...