Posted by Jon Sacks on August 07, 2008 at 10:24:22:
In Reply to: CSV vs the # Buffer posted by Robert G Laurin on August 07, 2008 at 07:43:25:
All I can tell you is this is one of the most important tools ever added. The ease at which I can manage data between systems is amazing. Not having to constantly write parsers or trying to get external system to write fixed format data has eliminated hours of work.
The passing of data via the buffer has been great too. The power of being able to populate the system buffer from within the report generator in a simple message delimited by commas so that the enter program can just read a format and not worry about parsing the data is a very powerful tool.
I would suggest that more developers think about this method for creating simple ENTER programs that use the comma delimited scheme to pass instructions from other programs to perform standard function. Then when upgrading a function only the enter program needs to be modified.
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