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.

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.