Peter J. Boettcher — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:11:33 +0000

If you're not that comfortable with programming then you should probably use VB or VBScript since it's syntax is very english like, but still has the power to do what you need.

aqzsvwx12345 — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:49:37 +0000

oh, thanks! Do you know what language would be best to write such a script? B/c unfortunately i'm not particularly good at programming. Any help would be much appreciated.

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:43:28 +0000

It would probably be simpler to create a script that reads the html files and then writes to a database. So the script would search for three distinct sections (title,body, and author) and write the content to the title, body, and author fields in the database.

It's not to hard but I doubt there's any automatic programs that will do this for you.

aqzsvwx12345 — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:22:51 +0000

well basically, the main fields i need are marked off in the html files: for example, the title is in between the and tags, the body text is in between a set of comments ( somthin like ) and the author is set off in a similar fashion. Obviously, w/ a find/replace, i can change them to commas. Is it possible then to easily mass-import them into a database without too much work?

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:59:55 +0000

When you say the sections are clearly marked off, how? For you to be able to import this data into a database every field/section will have to be separated by a common delimiter (like a comma or something).