Comments on: You can have your delimiter in any character, as long as it is comma http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/06/24/you-can-have-your-delimiter-in-any-character-as-long-as-it-is-comma/ Wherein I write some stuff that you may like to read. Or not, its up to you really. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Slate http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/06/24/you-can-have-your-delimiter-in-any-character-as-long-as-it-is-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-38243 Slate Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:08:00 +0000 http://halfcooked.com/blog/?p=116#comment-38243 I am working as designer on a Datawarehousing projekt, and we require the same format, for the input, too. The pipe delimiter is a very good choice. I do not go into further details about that here. If you are feeding your system with handmade interface files, then you have to implement a guessing-error-retry layer in the loader anyway. And don't forget to assign a full time programmer to this task, who is trained to be unpopular:) FYI there exists at least two different versions of the "popular desktop productivity software ", which produce different csv output with the same settings. IMHO the bigger problem is "ASCII encoded DOS file", which means no i18n support. The casual observer would think, that this system will have a very hard time loading a description or a surname field. I am working as designer on a Datawarehousing projekt, and we require the same format, for the input, too. The pipe delimiter is a very good choice. I do not go into further details about that here.

If you are feeding your system with handmade interface files, then you have to implement a guessing-error-retry layer in the loader anyway. And don’t forget to assign a full time programmer to this task, who is trained to be unpopular:)

FYI there exists at least two different versions of the “popular desktop productivity software “, which produce different csv output with the same settings.

IMHO the bigger problem is “ASCII encoded DOS file”, which means no i18n support. The casual observer would think, that this system will have a very hard time loading a description or a surname field.

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