A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
I am writing a program on a UNIX system to munch the text output of a Cisco VOIP call manager and turn those data in to something that looks like the output of our hard-wired PBX. Fortunately, the data we need are a subset of all the data available so the main problem is simply that of

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the strings that are part of the call manager output in to the unsigned ints that actually carry the right values?

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Chuck Swiger writes: On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the strings that are part of the call manager output in to the unsigned

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to you and to one other individual who have written responses to my questions. You're welcome. I will talk to the people who extracted the file and see if there is a possibility we got the wrong data in that

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation Solved

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Those of you who recognised the example string I sent as a UUID really helped solve this problem. What happened was that the algorithm I wrote to parse the CSV values in each record is broken when it encounters a blank field as in ,, so it fails to increase the index counter and place a