Treasures of U2: cme

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Just had another instance of Xy's being able to do something
 that would have taken hours in three other programs. I
needed to get data from one program (our USPS-approved bulk
Mailing program) to another (WordPerfect, to print some
special labels). The mailing program generated the data as
part of a much larger file, which could, however, be
"printed" to a text file using the Windows generic/text
driver. Opened the file in Xy and wrote an XPL routine to
grab the data I needed, get rid of extraneous text and
spaces, and convert it to a CSV file that WP could import as
merge data. In this, I was enormously aided by the U2
routine CME, which let me test each CI and once I was sure
it did what was needed, paste it into the XPL routine.
Had I only needed it once, that might have seemed a lot of
effort, but I expect to need to re-create these labels each
week, so that XPL routine is going to save me hours over the
next few months. Thanks, Carl.
By the by, has anyone else noticed that with each release of
the typical Windows bloatware (I'm thinking of WP in
particular) the help files get less and less helpful? They
don't take out any of the "features," but they tell you less
and less how to use them. Had to go look at Help on an older
version on one of the old PCs to refresh my memory about
importing files to merge data.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx