Unix import of a DOS spreadsheet...

[John Esak]

Oh, oh, oh.... Now I get what he said was wrong.  But, I didn't know about
the decimal representation of the characters. I don't think that is in any
of the docs... Maybe Laura's?

The little table you printed would serve the purpose just fine.  But also,
it's a shame, this is one more of the very few places where the
literal/field/parens distinction is off.  There aren't probably 5 situations
like it, but in 99% of the other filePro processing stuff, r=13 or r=10
would obviously  mean r gets set equal to the contents of field 13 or field
10. :-(  Too bad... But then, IMPORT mus has been around since day 1 right?
Had it come along later, you could have made it r=(13), but for the 2 places
you left yourself.

Oh well, at least Stuart did have working syntax in the book.  I was wrong.

John




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:27 AM
> To: john at valar.com
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Unix import of a DOS spreadsheet...
> 
> On 9/5/2010 12:16 AM, John Esak wrote:
> > Okay, then why didn't the use of r=10 or r=13 work for Mike?
> 
> Because this is a Linux box, with a Windows-formatted text file.
> 
> [...]
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
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