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723 Charles Johnson2/11/2010 10:21:25 am PST

re: #722 Walter L. Newton

Well Charles, any one section of code may have calls to other procedures or functions that may or may not reflect on what is happening with any set of data.

I have in mind a section of code that takes input from a flat file and parses it… badly… with no checks for invalid data coming in, no “scrubbing,” nothing to prevent invalid records from being created. But that procedure calls other functions.

You just made your challenge almost impossible. As a programmer, you know that much code is dependent on many other “parts” of the code.

OK, then go ahead and post whatever you think makes your case. I seriously doubt that you’re going to be able to show an “inaccuracy,” which is what you claimed. And quibbling over quick and dirty methods used to parse a flat file is not the same thing as demonstrating that the code produced inaccurate results.