Comments on: 8 Special And Great SQR Features

By: administrator

administrator — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:22:37 +0000

The puzzle was to write the best code to count commas in a string. The rules for formatting names may be set differently in each organization. Consistency makes it easier to write programs to parse the names and makes the name sorts more predictable.

By: little

little — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:02:13 +0000

The Name “Smith Jr., John A. ” is right?

By: administrator

administrator — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:42 +0000

That’s good code, and I’ll be surprised if anybody can do it in a more straightforward way. To expand the challenge, can somebody show us how to route the “too few commas” and “too many commas” to different branches? Or how to use the unstring command?

By: administrator

administrator — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:54:48 +0000

The Honeywell 200 was a great computer from the 1960s. Bob “Josephson” (my brother, and our dad’s name was Joseph) and I both worked on it as part of a high school work-study program. I programmed it in Fortran, I think Bob programmed it in Cobol. That was the better choice, since the Honeywell’s machine language was optimized for business applications.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:18:17 +0000

if length(&name) – length(translate(&name, ‘,’, ”)) <> 1
! the name is bad…

By: Bob Josephson

Bob Josephson — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:06:08 +0000

Great start to the blog! Do you take requests for article ideas? I’d love to see a posting on using Peoplesoft/SQR as a front end for legacy systems like the Honeywell 200.