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| Allow me to point out the (un)obvious... UPC = Universal Product Code where the leading 0 means general merchandise there is an additional lead character but I forget the detail (something like 3 means pharmacutical) five characters to the left of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Any having trouble accessing lugnet.com subdomains?
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| It works fine from Sweden;) I included some info to you, maybe you can find it usefull? 8 164 ms 144 ms 176 ms bar1-serial6-1-1-0.N...nyr.cw.net [206.24.200.157] 9 168 ms 136 ms 170 ms acr2-loopback.NewYorknyr.cw.net [206.24.194.62] 10 175 ms 178 ms (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Someone in the Washington, D.C. area is reporting having trouble accessing things on img.lugnet.com and news.lugnet.com...possibly some kind of DNS confusion somewhere. (img.lugnet.com is where images from the sets database are served.) Anyone else (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Writing A Proposal
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| (...) Luckily, it looks like Lego uses the set # as the last part of the UPC. At least from the sets I looked at -- are there cases where this isn't true? (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) That would be cool!!! :-s --Todd (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Writing A Proposal
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| (...) I intend to set up something so that scanning a Lego UPC automatically enters it in LUGnet as part of my collection. I'd highly recommend against using the software that comes with the :CueCat. Each device has a unique ID, and every time you (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I got two of these, one from Wired, and one from Forbes. (1) Have people been putting these to any use at all? I could see using them to scan UPC codes maybe... I would rather they built this function into a giveaway mouse instead of YAGTCUMW (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| (...) Dang. THAT is a very important piece of info -- thanks! OK... Are there any popular programs out there (on the level of Excel, etc.) which only handle CSV text and don't handle tab-delimited text data? --Todd (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| Todd Lehman skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I see in the thread that you've got most of the answers you need, but there is at least one complication in the Windows world (if you ever get files from that): The MS programs (and many others too, as (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Office 2000 Help
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| Hey - I've poked around the web enough, and also asked a few people with no success, so I thought I'd dip in the brain pool here. Two questions about Office 2000 - 1) Is there any way to restore the start menus to the way they were before O2K was (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| (...) Aha! Excellent. Those docs sound well thought out. Hmm, that reminds me... Duh, this is prolly a common Perl thing. I bet Freidl[1] as some stuff on CSV? Lessee... <dig dig dig> Ahh, here we go: pp. 204-208, 227, 231, 290. And (haha!) it even (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| Maybe this will also be helpful. It's not exactly a standard, but it is IEEE. :) (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| There exists (in CPAN) a Text-CSV perl module. From its documentation: This module is based upon a working definition of CSV format which may not be the most general. 1 Allowable characters within a CSV field include 0x09 (tab) and the inclusive (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| (...) I remember looking for this about a year ago, and I came across something that looked very standardish. If I remember right, it's really silly. You don't actually escape things. Fields are comma separated, and optionally surrounded by (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| (...) I think there are a variety of CSV-to-HTML-table converters floating around that you can download -- I saw at least 3 earlier while searching before posting. You'd probably want to look for one that somehow auto-sensed whether quotes were (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | RE: CSV delimiters
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| (...) I agree. I was trying to hack an Excel file into some usable html, and those "" made it nearly impossible for me to do search and replaces to get valid html without messing it up in other places. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| (...) Eeek -- shame on me -- did I just say "it's" when I meant "its"? Anyway, I forgot to say: The idea of escaping quotes is *bizarre* in the first place. IMHO, there shouldn't *be* any closing double-quote character on a field once it has already (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: CSV delimiters
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| (...) I hate it too. IIRC, Excel uses "" instead of \" for an escaped " -- but I could be wrong. I just remember hating it once when I looked at it. :) One nice thing, though, is that Excel can import tab-delimited text, so that's it's saving grace. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | RE: CSV delimiters
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| (...) Sorry, I can't help. And I hate the way Excel outputs in plain text. But since it's 2:30 in the morning, I'll make useless comments. Sounds like you're working on the question I asked...augh, and I just entered all the sets manually. Oh well, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | CSV delimiters
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| Is there any "official" or "reasonably standardized format" for CSV (_C_omma _S_eparated _V_alue) data? I guess it's pretty obvious, mostly, but how are the delimiter characters typically encoded (specifically: comma, double-quote, and newline)? In (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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