Re: Need help
| From: | DL Neil | Date: | Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:31:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Need help | ||
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John,
> Yeeesch! I neet help.
Yeeesch! was exactly my reaction when I read the following!
Now that you have had some responses to 'directly' address the problem may I ask why you
would want to
maintain/work with the data in this format (top) as opposed to the eminently logical later
presentation (below)?
It's not "relational"!
=dn
> The field looks a bit like this:
>
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>
> &&1; Caribbean and West Indies; Guyana;&&4; Birney,(i) Earle; Harris,(i)
> Wilson; Hope,(i) Alec Derwent; King,(i) Bruce; James,(i) Henry;
> Olson,(i) Charles; Rushdie,(i) Salman; Purdy,(i) Al; Joyce,(i) James;
> Macleish,(i) Archibald; Cummings,(i) Edward Estlin (E.E.); Auden,(i) W.
> H.; Atwood,(i) Margaret; Tutuola,(i) Amos; Simon,(i) Claude;&&7;
> comparison of authors and works;
>
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> Birney, Earle
> Harris, Wilson
> Hope, Alec Derwent
> King, Bruce
> James, Henry
> Olson, Charles
> Rushdie, Salman
> Purdy, Al
> Joyce, James
> Macleish, Archibald
> Cummings, Edward Estlin (E.E.)
> Auden, W. H.
> Atwood, Margaret
> Tutuola, Amos
> Simon, Claude