Best way to import XML Files

Bill Vermillion fp at wjv.com
Thu Jun 17 07:50:13 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:58:06PM -0400, George Simon thus
spoke:

> What about if I import ascii but set the field and record
> delimiters to something that is very unlikely to be found, such
> as ~.

"unlikely" to be found will bite you unless you make certain
that the delimiter will >never< be found.

Programming for unlikely brings you to the day when something that
has worked for a long time stops working and you spend a lot of
time hunting for the culprit.


-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com


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