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  Re: 8250 Search Sub
 
(...) 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)
 
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)
 
(...) 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)
 
(...) 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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