On 11 May 2008 14:26:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Alcock) wrote: >Ever since the Web came along I've been annoyed by those web >sites that won't accept spaces or dashes like for credit cards >and phone numbers. I know that even ancient mainframe COBOL has >support for removing them with one command. I see that it's >just pure laziness as I suspected all along: > > http://www.unixwiz.net/ndos-shame.html
I've seen "too much editing" being done in CoBOL as well. Editing for stuff that doesn't matter - and which needs to be changed when conditions change. I hate the programming to make it hard to enter your credit cards, but I also dislike it when they don't let me put in a 80301-2472 zip code. There are foreign postal codes that *require* longer fields. And the U.S. postal service wants these as well. And let me type in phone numbers with dashes and parenthesis if I want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
