On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:25:53 -0700 David Alcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Ever since the Web came along I've been annoyed by those web :>sites that won't accept spaces or dashes like for credit cards :>and phone numbers. I know that even ancient mainframe COBOL has :>support for removing them with one command. I see that it's :>just pure laziness as I suspected all along: :> http://www.unixwiz.net/ndos-shame.html Some *mumble* decades ago when I worked at Western Electric I put in code to look at the part number entered and tried to reformat it into the various possible formats (I think there were four or five different formats for part numbers - don't know why they were different) before returning "unknown part". This concept is not new with the web. P.S. I believe that I wrote it in assembler, not COBOL - but it could have been done in COBOL. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
