Using JDBC to access text file

I gotta admit I didn't research it much. this is not like 'Help!!! Urgent!!!' question. I'm just curious. how do you work with tab-delimited files using JDBC? what driver do you need? same question goes for .csv files. I'm doing fine by just using file streams (no JDBC), splitting every line (split method of String class) and storing them in array. just curious. there are 10 shmukes for good answer, 5 for tab delimited and 5 for .csv (shmuke is my equivalent of dukes, they are almost as good (both are worthless)). I'll save dukes until I need some real answers.

Go over to the JDBC forum and do a search...I recently had a discussion of the particulars of this with thomas.kellerer.
Basically, you can use the Microsoft Text Driver if you're on a Windows platform. The Text driver gives you the option of defining your delimiter and headers for each file in a directory. The directory is considered the catalog (the database), and each file is considered a separate table. Works very well...I'm incorporating it into a project of mine.
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