[ic] specs.txt (?)

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sun Jan 26 01:16:01 2003


Quoting Adrian P Wilkinson (junk@puffin.org):
> Hi Mike,
> 
> > It is as simple as
> >  sku header detail
> > SKU Spec name The information
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up, although it's worth mentioning that it's working
> without the leading space for me which is good because Access really didn't
> like the idea of a field with a leading space.

I will warn you -- it will not always work, though it will probably work
much more often than not. A binary search halves the data and checks based
on the first character, then halves again. There are plenty of scenarios where
it will fail when the sort is wrong, even on the first line.

-- 
Mike Heins
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