Re: my dilemma -- hundreds of record types
- Posted by Chris Saik <csaik2002 at yahoo.com> Nov 15, 2002
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I think I answered my own question. The FTP feed always begins new tags on a new line. I could just check the first character of the line that I'm currently reading in, and if it's a "<" then I can assume it's a new tag. Although, if someone used "<" within the data, and it just happened to be the first character of the line, then it wouldn't work... hmmm... > > Thank you Irv. I'm confused over one thing > though... > what if the data following the tag is several lines > long, as in a paragraph? How would I print the > entire > data within the field, and stop when the program > reaches the next tag? > > Thanks for your assistance, > > Chris > > > > > >