Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss Content Posted by Paul Ibison Simple Method for Importing Ragged files RE: Simple Method for Importing Ragged files

  • March 6, 2008 at 9:24 pm

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    Mike C (3/6/2008)

    Yes, catchy title. When I first clicked on it I actually expected it would be about the type of file I was asking about. The author's right though, I've never had any need to solve this very specific problem. I was kind of wondering how common this specific problem is compared to, say, ANSI X12 EDI and other formats where simply stripping headers and footers is not an option?

    Heh... guess it depends on what business you're in... I've been fortunate in not ever having to mess with EDI files. I have had to do exactly what's in this article a couple of dozen times. Not necessarily using the methods in this article each time, but same problem files.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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