Look up UPC codes

[Dale Harris]

Here is a program that Brandon Crocker asked me to write. It will look up UPC codes from a 1,000,000+ database of codes and display the description of the item. This is pretty useless but strangely fun in a spooky sort of way.

If you want to give this a try you must download a database file from this site http://www.upcdatabase.com/downloads/ and then unzip the file. This is one big honking file.

Now you must download this file to the same folder http://www.dhpos.com/findupc.exe This is my program and you will not have to unzip it.

When you run my program it will take the database you downloaded (and unzipped) and create still another even larger file that is in random access format. This will allow the program to find the UPC codes very quickly. However depending on the speed of your computer the creation of the file could take a while. The new file is created only the first time you run the FINDUPC.EXE program.

Now you just enter the UPC codes into the FINDUPC.EXE program and it will display the description for that product.

That's it, it does not do anything else.

If anyone tries this out let me know what you think about it.

[bob5731]

is anyone using it?