I am looking for advice.
On the server, I have a text file containing data. The file is updated frequently (a few times/week).
I want to display the data on a web page in a GridView control.
The data is *not* in any standard database format, and I cannot change it. Therefore, I need to have code, which could be either on the server or the client, which extracts the text fields from the text file.
A simple example to illustrate what I mean:
Text file contents:
id=123 date=8/1/09 name="Doe,John" comment="Enrolled in the full program"
id=456 date=...
GridView should look like
ID Date First Last Comment (these are the columns)
The text file needs to be converted somehow so the desired columns are available in some sort of data object.
This is a simplified example of the type of data; the actual data is more complex.
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