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Re: 8250 Search Sub
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:02:34 GMT
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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 22:33:30 GMT, "Robert Munafo" <munafo@gcctech.com>
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> I don't want to use tabs because they're even less reliable than spaces:
> - My editor is Emacs running under Linux and I have tabs set to 4 spaces per
> tab. Most "normal" users have tabs set to 8 spaces.
> - Tabs fail when you quote the message in a reply, because the "> " inserted
> at the beginning makes all the lines start a couple characters farther over.
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 inventories in space-delimited formats.
One more reason to shift your color column: The most common
inventory-posting format lists Quantity, Color, Description. But maybe the
"standard inventory post format" should specify that columns have
*headers*, instead of a specific format. That way, posters could use
whichever column-order they desire, and downloaders could still suck the
data into their own programs.
So far, we've got about 6 standard columns:
Quantity
Color
ID (ie, part number)
Size
Type
Description (includes ID, size, and/or type)
Steve
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| 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)
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