Card Reader Information

[Lumpierbritches]

Thank you for all your help and assistance, it's greatly appreciated. Is there
a way in Access, any version to capture the mag stripe information and place in
appropriate textboxes? i.e. Lastname, Firstname, MI, Address, City, State, Zip,
Phone, if all this is in the same order on the mag stripe?

Michael

[Tony Toews]

lu*************@aol.com (Lumpierbritches) wrote:

Thank you for all your help and assistance, it's greatly appreciated. Is there
a way in Access, any version to capture the mag stripe information and place in
appropriate textboxes? i.e. Lastname, Firstname, MI, Address, City, State, Zip,
Phone, if all this is in the same order on the mag stripe?

You need to talk to the vendor of the mag stripe card reader to see what software
mechanism they have for you to pull in that data. A DLL, OCX or other which will
allow you to extract the data from the card reader.

Unless the mag stripe card reader sits between the keyboard and the PC. Which is
unlikely but possible.

Note, however, that many OCXs don't work well or at all in Access.

Tony
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[Lumpierbritches]

Thank you Tony. The mag stripe reader is just a basic input device that when
it's swiped places whatever is on the card into a textbox or word processing
document. I will read any type of mag stripe card and show the data on that
stripe in any text holder. I have tried it with MS Word, Notepad, Wordpad and
just one textbox on an A2000 application. I want to be able to extract the data
that would be in a delimited format more than likely; i.e. spaces etc on the
mag stripe.

Michael

[Mark]

Michael,

From your description here and from your original post, you need to look at the
following functions in Help or some reference:
InStr
Left
Mid
Right

The info from the mag stripe reader will be a string and you need to use the
above functions to parse out the individual data elements.

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"Lumpierbritches" <lu*************@aol.com> wrote in message
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Thank you Tony. The mag stripe reader is just a basic input device that when
it's swiped places whatever is on the card into a textbox or word processing
document. I will read any type of mag stripe card and show the data on that
stripe in any text holder. I have tried it with MS Word, Notepad, Wordpad and
just one textbox on an A2000 application. I want to be able to extract the data that would be in a delimited format more than likely; i.e. spaces etc on the
mag stripe.

Michael

[Tom van Stiphout]

On 08 Apr 2004 09:51:47 GMT, lu*************@aol.com (Lumpierbritches)
wrote:

When the device has done its magic, the <textbox>_Change event will
occur. That's where you should write code to pick apart the data. If
you are lucky there is some separator character, perhaps a comma or a
tab. Use a combination of InStr, Left$, Mid$, Right$ to write your
code.

-Tom.

Thank you Tony. The mag stripe reader is just a basic input device that when
it's swiped places whatever is on the card into a textbox or word processing
document. I will read any type of mag stripe card and show the data on that
stripe in any text holder. I have tried it with MS Word, Notepad, Wordpad and
just one textbox on an A2000 application. I want to be able to extract the data
that would be in a delimited format more than likely; i.e. spaces etc on the
mag stripe.

Michael