January 2002
Beginner
576 pages
13h 23m
English
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The Art of Parsing
Let’s suppose that your boss comes to you with what he thinks is a wonderful idea. The phone company has sent him a disk containing the phone calls for the past month. They can provide this on a monthly basis. He wants you to transfer this list to an Access database so that he can tell who is making the longest calls. When you finally see the phone bill, it looks something like Table 19.2 (minus several thousand records).
| 2790017 | 9185436525 | 20001215 351NGTBixby | 13538547 | 24 | 168 |
| 2790017 | 9184681269 | 20001129 824DAYBixby | 10538547 | 18 | 180 |
| 2790017 | 9184681181 | 20001227 101NGTBixby | 3538547 | 4 | 28 |
| 2790017 | 9185459191 | 20001227 102NGTBixby | 2538547 | 2 | 14 |
| 2790017 | 9185448823 | 20001227 301NGTBixby ... |
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