August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 3m
English
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Variety of Record Types
What if your CSV file has rows with different formats instead of all being the same? For example, what if you have a row for a purchase order header followed by rows for line items, instead of one row per line item with the header information repeated in each row? This leads us quite nicely into the next chapter, which deals with this type of file organization, only with fixed length records. We'll discuss that enhancement a bit at the end of Chapter 8.