On Dec 11, 2003, at 8:00 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
drieux wrote:[..]
Still think you should shoot who EVER came up with the original file format...
Now, now, no need for violence. Perhaps seeking a commitment order, but no violence, please!
p0: in light of your MOST EXCELLENT RDBMS table lay out, I wish to start by tipping my Hat!!! Most Well Played!
{ or DoublePlusMoGooder... 8-) }
I suck, you Rule! - I really should have stepped back and looked more at the data than the simpler parsing problem...
clearly this is a db_conversion_tool problem, but doing it from these types of Yuk, Yuk, Yuk, dumps of the old db is, GROSS!
p1: unfortunately the phrase you should assert is
drieux, you are a professional,
remember your 12-step programme"no contract, no killing"
we do not do pro-bono work...
since technically I have obligations to that trade.
p2: can we at least highly recommend incrementing the bad_kharma_count for who ever wrote the db_dump_tool for leaving a coder with way ugly file formatting to re-parse???
how about say:
bad_kharma_count++ while($infestation_unit_is_breathing);ciao drieux
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