RE: IBM response on my CPYFRMIMPF request

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   4. RE: IBM response on my CPYFRMIMPF request (rob@xxxxxxxxx)
>
>Technically the comma alone is not necessary a good indicator.  For 
>example:
>1,"Vehicle, SUV, green", 5,"hi ya"
>But it really boils down to because the customer supplies it that way.

There are always odd possibilities, yes. Having an occurrence of a delimiter 
character within the data itself brings a real can of worms. E.g.:

 1, "Pizza 15", 5 toppings", 5, "hi ya"

Hmmm... a 15" pizza with 5 toppings? Since the string delimiter is allowed 
inside of the delimited string, how is the field delimiter interpreted? 
(Ooooo... what would Excel do???)

Tom

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