d it works quite well.
-Original Message-
From: Chuck Lockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: [OT] Extract data from report
I highly recommend a product called Monarch whenever you need to extract
data
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Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Extract data from report
What I mean is if you don't have to take the report parse it and manipulate
it on a moment to moment basses. If you need to periodically get the report
then move it into SQL tables or something like that then Filemaker
What I mean is if you don't have to take the report parse it and manipulate
it on a moment to moment basses. If you need to periodically get the report
then move it into SQL tables or something like that then Filemaker will do a
good job for you and it is easy to manipulate the data once it is in t
If you don't need to do it on the fly Filemaker is real good at this.
on 2/26/04 22:10, John Shaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is way off topic and not even web related, so stop reading if you don't
> want to waste your time on it.
>
> A legacy system, which I have no contr
Sounds like a job for perl!
/John
John Shaw wrote:
Hello all,
This is way off topic and not even web related, so stop reading if you don't
want to waste your time on it.
A legacy system, which I have no control over, provides a huge text file
with about a hundred separate fixed-length batches.
I normally read files like this one line at a time into a single note field.
Read the header line out,
Then read the following records and parse them out and put the results into
another table.
Troy
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From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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