ADO ConnectionString TextFile

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Text files files accessed via ADO will be read only. ADO does not have a driver that supports writing to or creating text files.

Arguments

The Provider supports the following arguments:

FMT

Using FMT=Delimited tells ADO that the text file is comma delimited. Although the comma is probably the most widely-used delimiter for text files, it's not the only one. Another popular delimiter is the TAB. In that case you would use FMT=TabDelimited. There are other options, but these are the most common variants you'll run into.

Format	Description	Schema.ini Syntax	Connection String Syntax
Tab Delimited	Fields in the file are separated by tabs	Format = TabDelimited	FMT=TabDelimited
CSV Delimited	Fields in the file are separated by commas (note that there should not be a space between the comma and the start of the next field name or value)	Format = CSVDelimited	FMT=CSVDelimited
Custom Delimited	Fields in the file are separated by some character other than a tab or a comma (with one exception: you can't use the double-quote as a delimiter). For example, the asterisk is used as the delimiter	Format = Delimited(*)	FMT=Delimited(*)
Fixed-Length	Fields in a file take up a specific number of characters. If a value is too long, "extra" characters are chopped off the end. If a value is too short, blank spaces are appended to it to make it fill out the requisite number of characters.	Format=FixedLength	FMT=FixedLength

HDR

Specifying HDR=YES means that the test file contains a header row. A header row simply means that the first row in the text file is a list of fields, with all subsequent rows containing the actual data.