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- THE INPUT FILE: Inventory report, generated by an accounting program
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- WHAT WE WANT: Copy certain fields into a comma-delimited file so that the
- data can then be imported into a spreadsheet. The file must
- contain the following fields:
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- Reference number, Price, Quantity, Part Number, Description
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- HOW WE DO IT: We copy data from fixed columns, tidy them up, put quotes
- around them, then send them to the output file. However,
- certain lines must be inspected to ensure that they contain
- valid data. For example, if a line contains "Date:" between
- columns 1 and 8, it is a header line, not data.
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- Since the input data for each item is spread over more than
- one line, we must also keep a counter (named ITEMCNTR) to
- tell us which line we're looking at.
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