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kmoorevs20-Apr-18 6:48
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
So how was your morning?

Well thanks for asking!

I was awakened at 7:15 this morning by my office phone. (gotta love those east coast clients!) That support call lasted until around 8:20.
At 8:21 the wife (travelling) called for the morning chat...lasted 15 minutes or so until interrupted by my business partner (also travelling) just wanting to see what I was doing.

It was 9:00 before I had my first cup of coffee!

OK, get around to checking email to find a customer needing me to resend a sample export for another vendor. The first sample had an additional column that the other vendor didn't need. Confused | :confused: (ok, let me remove that column for you, because it's obviously beyond your technical abilities, just like it's apparently beyond the abilities of the other software vendor to simply ignore the in-needed column! Mad | :mad: ...and here you go! Hmmm | :| Oh boy, a reply back already...'the leading zeroes are missing'???Confused | :confused: No they aren't...I just opened the file in notepad and it's fine! Did you open the csv in Excel? (which strips leading zeroes even though the items are double-quoted!) Not my problem! Mad | :mad: The solution: Don't open the file in Excel! IMHO, the software receiving the import should be able to handle the missing leading zeroes anyway, except that the client has really screwed up their numbering...eg. '248' and '00248' refer to different entities! Unsure | :~ ..and another reply with several dozen 'unmatched' entities...did I mention this was a sample file? (so, remove the unmatched from the sample file and we should have 100% success and they will leave me alone for awhile!

In the meantime, the wife has called again (while driving/bored) so here it is almost noon and I haven't written a single line of code. OMG | :OMG: OMG | :OMG:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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