Re: Validating input file

On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:07:26 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>First, look at the file with a hex editor to validate your assumptions.
>
>The usual purpose of a comma-delimited file is to dispense with imbedded 
>blanks (else the file would have been defined as fixed length in the
first 
>place).

Many of the PC tools ex****t delimited files as their natural format. I
use them to create files that they can read with their spreadsheet
programs - or to read files created by their spreadsheet programs.