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Skriven 2008-09-24 08:59:01 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
  Kommentar till text 14119 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
Ärende: MM Import
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Hello, Dave.

Tuesday September 23 2008 at 08:24, you wrote to DALE SHIPP:

 DD> Trying to import without filtering through MMCONV gives odd errors
 DD> like "ingredients after directions at line (XX)" and missing the odd
 DD> footer (which is really there), etc.

 DD> And if I knew WHY that is - I'd be a rich and influent programming
 DD> genius. Bv)=

Not to be too OT, but I was going through some information I'd found about
importing MM-formatted recipes.  Evidently, they have to be formatted EXACTLY
as the specification says.  There is really no room for error.  It's a rather
odd way to do things from a programmer's prospective.

I've been thinking about writing a simple MM clone that can handle up to 2.1
billion recipes in a single archive (rather than just 65535 recipes), so that's
why I was poking around for information.  I was thinking about writing it using
a flat-file database, but after tinkering with SQL, it would be much, MUCH
easier to write a front-end to a big ol SQL table (a 32TB limitation :).

Maybe once my life settles down a bit, I'll look into it.  The basic program
shouldn't be too hard to write.  I just have to think about what language I'd
like to write it in and start working on it.  I'd also write a better and
smarter importing procedure.  The only real limitation I'd think of is doing a
dupe detection routine as I'd probably use just the recipe name to look for
dupes (for those who use SQL, something along the lines of SELECT * FROM table
WHERE name = 'blah').

Dunno as right now, I'm quitting my current job.  I just got another one and
I'm starting to pack up my apartment as in January, we're moving a little
farther north in the Metro area to Kennesaw to start going to school full-time
at Kennesaw State University.

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MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Crock Pot Mexican Beef
 Categories: Crockpot, Beef, Mexican, Steak, Beans
      Yield: 1 Servings

  1 1/2 lb Round steak; cut in bite
           -size pieces
    1/4 ts Pepper
    1/2 ts Garlic salt
      1 tb Chili powder
      1 tb Prepared mustard
      1    Chopped onion
      1    Beef bouillon cube; crushed
      1 cn (16 oz.) tomatoes; cut up
      1 cn (16 oz.) kidney beans;
           -drained

  Mix meat, salt, pepper, chili powder and mustard in pot. Cover with
  onion, bouillon cube, and tomatoes. Top with beans. Cover and cook on
  low 6-8 hours. Mix and serve with rice. Posted to recipelu-digest
  Volume 01 Number 285 by James and Susan Kirkland <kirkland@gj.net> on
  Nov 22, 1997

MMMMM

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Later,
Sean

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