[ic] Products.txt

[Jim Balcom]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jim Webster wrote:

JW>>I have a script that writes new products to the products.txt automatically.
JW>>
JW>>This file is a TAB delimited file.  To make revisions easier, how can I make
JW>>IC read this file with a comma "," or pipe "|" between each value.

Others will probably correct me.

It seems to me that if you do that you will break a lot of other things and
cause massive headaches.

It seems to me to be easier to teach your script to insert a CTL-I (or 09)
between the fields. Then, nothing gets broken.

-= Jim =-

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