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    Re: 8250 Search Sub —Robert Munafo
   Hi Todd, Sorry about the trouble my message has caused, I should have brought the discussion up right here in admin.general. And it was rude of me to say "stupidly"; I apologize! To answer your comments -- I agree completely that Times or another (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: 8250 Search Sub —Steve Bliss
   (...) But tabs are better than spaces when it's a program reading the data, instead of a person looking at the screen. Excel is going to handle tab-delimited data much more accurately than 3-space delimited data. But I'm guilty of posting (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Inventory format (was Re: 8250 Search Sub) —Robert Munafo
   I don't think you'll be able to use Excel macros to do the type of processing that inventory work requires. You need a programming language that includes native string data types, grep-style regular expression pattern matching, and associative (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.db.inv)
   
        Re: Inventory format (was Re: 8250 Search Sub) —Steve Bliss
   (...) My point was that it would be useful for people to be able to use the inventory data in as many different ways as possible. For a lot of people, using the data means opening a list in Excel. Non-techies need data in better formats than (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.db.inv)
   
        Re: Inventory format (was Re: 8250 Search Sub) —Geoffrey Hyde
    (...) change (...) You think an MS Access app is bad? How about MS Works? :o) I know, I know, but it came pre-installed! :) -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde -- www.fastinternet.net.au/~ghyde -- (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.db.inv)
 

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