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Re: Standardized Inventory File Format?
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lugnet.db.inv
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Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:15:14 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <37ea300b.59491442@lugnet.com>...
> I suppose non-programmers could load the data file into a text editor
> first, and search'n'replace all the tri-spaces with a comma.
People may end up with multiple commas if there happens to be a gap of six
or more spaces, then.
Of course after replacing ' ' with ',', they could replace ',,' with ','.
It might be necessary to run the second replace operation multiple times, if
the program being used doesn't replace nested search strings (e.g., ',,,,'
becomes ',,' after the first pass).
Surely there's a better way.
-Gary
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| (...) Yes -- the way to do that type of transformation in a single operation is to replace the grep expression / +/ with /,/. Of course, if you don't have grep replace in your text editor, get a real text editor (-: Just kidding! Every major OS can (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| (...) Are there many programs that support multi-character delimiters in their import function? I'm fairly certain Excel and MS-Access do not. The point of making a standard format is to make the data more accessible to everyone. Not just coders. I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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