Data Access Class Reading a Text File????

Hi,
I have created a data access class... and for one of my constructors.. I need to go a text file and get the information : dsn name, username, and password from the file and bring it into the construtor... does anyone know how to do that??
Thx
Rich
Here is my constructor:
public DataAccess() {
}

Define a PropertyManager class where you specify the file and read the parameters? I have a sample I will have searc through my archive.
Will post if after some time.
Hope I gave a small spark to ignite.
Cheers.
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I am very new to LV programming so I hope you forgive any stupid mistakes I am making.   I am using Ver. 8.2 on an XP machine.
I have a small program that stores small data sets in text files and can update them individually or read and update them all sequentially, sending the data out a USB device.   Currently I am just using two data sets, each in their own small text file. The delimiter is two commas ",,".
The program works fine as written when run in the regular programming environment. I noticed, however, as soon as I built it into a project that the one function where it would read each file sequentially to update both files the read from text file vi would return an empty data set, resulting in blank values being written back into the file. I read and rewrite the values back to the text file to place the one updated field (price) in it'sproper place. Each small text file is identified and named with a 4 digit number "ID".   I built it twce, and get the same result. I also built it into an installer and unfortunately the bug travelled into the installation as well.
Here is the overall program code in question:
Here is the reading and parsing subvi:
If you have any idea at all what could cause this I would really appreciate it!
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Hi Kiauma,
Dennis beat me to it, but here goes my two cents:
First of all, it's great to see that you're using error handling - that should make troubleshooting a lot easier. By any chance, have you observed error 7 when you try to read your files and get an empty data set? (You've probably seen that error before - it means the file wasn't found)
If you're seeing that error, the issue probably has something to do with this:
Relative paths differ in an executable. This knowledge base document sums it up pretty well. To make matters more confusing, if you ever upgrade to LabVIEW 2009 the whole scheme changes. Also, because an installer contains the executable, building the installer will always yield the same results.
Lastly, instead of parsing each set of commas using the "match pattern" function, there's a function called "spreadsheet string to array" (also on the string palette) that does exactly what you're doing, except with one function:
I hope this is helpful...
Jim

Read from text file and seperate column

hello,
I have a problem reading my text file. This text file is downloaded from weather link. All data will be changed upon the selection of user. my problem is I can read the data column by column but i cannot retrive the right column header for each data. I also attached the test file. Can somebody help me? Thanks in advance..
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download.txt ‏8 KB
read text file.JPG ‏11 KB
read data.JPG ‏43 KB

Hi
Sorry, I missed that one. The file formatting is strange though. It uses spaces to separate columns but also within columns. I attached a modified VI that tries to take care of that, but it fails at the columns "Solar Energy" and "Hi Solar Rad.". This is very difficult to read programmatically as there's one space each between "Solar", "Hi", and "Solar" again. So how do we distinguish between column separator and space within column?
Is download.txt the original file? Or was it probably modified by an editor that would replace tabs by space characters?
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test-mod-2.vi ‏11 KB

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