borland c++ 6 - reading in a txt file, then merge with db.

[b0x]

I am working on a project where I have 2 files, a .db file, and a .txt file. The DB file contains a 'tag' and a 'value'. The txt file contains a tag, and other info, like location, units, etc so you know what the value means. I need to read in the txt file and the db file, and display them so that everything from the txt file is associated with the db file. I am pretty new to borland. Right now I have the db file displayed, but dont know how to get the text file read-in and then merged with the db file. I can probably figure out how to get the file read in, but have no idea how to 'merge' the two. Any tips?

[sicarie]

What are the relationships between the .txt and the .db files? What is the same between them. Maybe the tag? So if you're reading the tags in from both, wouldn't you then want to combine the information from the two? Reading in a .txt file is simple because it's going to be plaintext, you can just open it and read it (I don't know if there were any conversions or specific read settings to look at the .db file).

So how you do that will depend on how you are reading in and storing that data.