PROTIP: Importing data into filepro

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Walker" <ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com>

> I agree with you. If I ever have control I use "|".
> 
> But, this is real world, and I often have no control, no input, no
> information, no common sense, no time, and no patience.
> 
> Customer just gets a spreadsheet from somewhere and hand it to me and
> says "Can you make this work?".

In general, yes.  

That said, you would often be surprised, for non-one-off things, how
flexible the other end can be if you ask them; it's just that people 
often don't ask.  And there's usually a business case for reducing the
labor and increasing the ruggedness at your end...

If it is a one-off, of course, you're screwed.  Often the easiest solution
is to pull it back into a spreadsheet and reexport it a sane format.  
(Anything where quotes are optional is not sane.)

Cheers,
-- jra
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