Hi Developers, I've read this series of messages with a lot of interest, because parsing, modifying and saving foreign data within RunRev is a daily task for most computer programmers...
but, i keep wondering about the kind of data that you are talking about: comma separated values I know that csv are simple text files. If i change a simple character within a binary file, surely MOST of the applications will refuse to open the file. It's not possible to check if the entire file is a valid comma separated value archive, before processing???? For example, checking the number of comma separated items in every line and flag and error if there is a deviation... Some apps identify themselves in the archive they write. (I know that Adobe ilustrator and pdf files had a tag to identify the creator of the files) IF every application that export data as csv, identify themselves, developers could use different code to parse the file. Which apps identify themselves in the cvs data???? And finally... The apps that exports data as cvs, must provide some way to convert this comma character within the record of the exported data... or maybe not. :-( Which apps do have or not have the "KNOW-HOW" to export data as cvs correctly???? Thanks in advance for your answers! :-) al ===== Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution