Posted by Scott Marquardt on 09/25/05 18:00

--CELKO-- opined thusly on Sep 24:
>>> My principal interest was in hearing how anyone else might PARSE the field to recover the data. Erland's trigger idea isn't bad for WHAT I do with it. "Invoice for 1/2 inch puce widgets and a can of beans, 100-3123@WidgetMart" <<
>
> Since free text requires human intelligence, we get people to encode
> it. If the text is short and styled the same way, you can find AI
> programs that are pretty good these days. Of course this has nothing
> to do with RDBMS and nobody in their right mind would try to do it in
> SQL.

Hey! How'd you find out about my condition?

;-)

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Scott

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