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From: philip mikal <philipm at nafohq dot hp dot com>
Subject: help with inserting text
Date: Feb 18 1998 2:44AM

Hello:

I am a bit confused on how one inserts text into Sybase using DBlib. I have 
data that I am trying to load into my database that looks like:

µ-ziq|24|129|http://www.caroline.com/astralwerks/muziq/|"America's premiere
 electronic label, Astralwerks Records, presents the µ-ziq"|astralwerks@car
oline.com|Astralwerks

I am taking this data from a text file, spliting it apart (pipe delimited, "|")
into variables and attempting to insert it into my database.  All my columns 
are text datatypes except for two, integers, which in the above example, would 
be "24" and "129".

I believe I am to use dbwritetext, but I do not understand it properly. The 
examples in the man pages are confusing to me, e.g., how does one determine 
the column number.

If anyone could explain how to accomplish this, it would be greatly 
appreciated.

Regards,


Philip
philipm@nafohq.hp.com