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Creating Databases – Importing a Delimited ASCII Text (DAT) File 2 Concordance ® 2007 Quick Help Concordance is a registered trademark of Applied Discovery, Inc. © 2007 Concordance. All rights reserved. LexisNexis and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Concordance is a registered trademark and FYI is a trademark of Applied Discovery, Inc. Other products or services may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Concordance. All rights reserved. Concordance ® Concordance ® Image Concordance ® FYI Copyright © 2007 Concordance. All rights reserved.
Creating Databases – Importing a Delimited ASCII Text (DAT) File 3 Before You Begin Delimited ASCII text files store 2-dimensional arrays of data by separating the values in each row with specific delimiter characters. Most database and spreadsheet programs are able to read or save data in a delimited format. Delimited-text files may have extensions such as .DAT, .ASC, .CSV or even .TXT, as long as the file is structured properly with text qualifiers, field delimiters and line breaks. For many Concordance databases the files will also include optical character recognized (OCR) text and scanned document images. DAT files will often accompany the OCR text and image files containing the metadata for each document. The procedure outlined in this document describes how to import a delimited ASCII text (.DAT) file. You will need… • Concordance • Text editor program (TextPad, UltraEdit or similar) • Delimited ASCII Text (DAT) file Creating a New Database File 1 Open Concordance. 2 In the File menu select New. Figure 1: Concordance Menu – File 3 In the Create database from template dialog (see figure 2), select the Blank database type. Figure 2: Create database from template – General tab Copyright © 2007 Concordance. All rights reserved.
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