Uploading attributes to blocks

Does anybody have an easy way to do a 'mass-load' of attributes from a
secondary document (preferably csv and/or text file) into blocks where
there is a common 'key' between a block name/attribute and a value in the
2ndry document (again pref 1st value of each line)?

Failing that, anybody got any ideas on how to do it?

Cheers

 

The simplest way is to build the text file into an Autolisp expression

(setq attlist '(
("TAG1" . "VALUE1")
("TAG2" . "VALUE2")
))

Then use (load "TEXTFILE.TXT")

Now you have dotted pair list to use within AutoLISP and step thru the
INSERT defination and assoc ATTRIB tag and entmod the values.


I do this thru either database reports or spreadsheet string
concatenations. -David