In a message dated 4/18/2005 9:25:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It's a lot easier to take the existing proven report logic and convert the > hold-files than to read through each one at a time to re-generate them. Mark, your problem might be that when the key field wraps, how will you know it? Your parsing program might view the wrapped portion as the start of a new key. Not sure how you'd tell the difference between the remainder of a key and a new short key. I suppose you could teach your parser that certain columns (Price, Date, ..) always have data, and if there's no data, that means the line you're parsing is the remainder of a wrapping. But, that involves "look-ahead" which is always a pain. And it involves more set-up than you might be willing to do. For the simplest approach, why not just load the report, *as-in* into Excel, have IT try to figure out where the breaks are, and just give it to your client that way and say Here have at it. Will ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
