Hi, I want make a small personal program for my use only but I don't know which would be the best software and database to work with. The program will do the following: Users will input a combination of unique characters and numbers like this A234 , B444 or C1 , A50 or D600 , B 290 as you can see at a time 2 sets of number seperated by comma will be entered. The characters will be limited to four A,B, C and D and the numbers would be limited to 600 from zero. I am also looking to have a feature of loading those combination of numbers from notepad. The main purpose of the program after getting all the things working is to see it like this (from example given above) : you are now in section A , B , 234 , 444 you are now in section C , A , 50 , 600 you are now in section D , B , 600 , 290 Hope you understood what i mean. Can you please suggest which program should i work with? Thanks for you time.
i would have preferred writing small code for it using VB6 or VBA with some regular expression or normal string processing logic ... there surely might be better ways of doing it, but I guess you can do this in any kind of language, so choose the one you are already quite proficient at.
I would use .NET to write the program. Also, the data exchange with Notepad is easy with the Microsoft programming languages. Regarding the database, you can use MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or any ODBC compliant database. Download the FREE Express Editions @ http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/default.aspx Good luck.
If it's a program and not a script, I would use Delphi. Does it need to be saved to a database? You could just save it to a CSV text file?