use Perl

• Maybe they'll make it in management (Score:1)

  by runrig (3385)

  Today, one of the developers pointed at my screen and asked "What's that?". "It's FireFox." "What's Firefox?"

  I once worked with someone (for one day, they didn't return the next) that asked "What time is it?" -- I pointed at the clock on the wall -- "Oh, I don't read analog."
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by vek (2312)

    Something similar, although mine was Ubuntu. "What's Ubuntu?". I've also had a "what's slashdot?". And queue eye roll time.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by ajt (2546)

    Though most people here know what Firefox is or what Ubuntu is, you would be amazed at how few people actually know anything at all. The average person thinks Microsoft Windows = Office, Internet Explorer = Internet, Outlook/Hotmail = email. People mix Windows and MS Office up because they are always together, the internet is IE and email is either Outlook or Hotmail - they don't know there are alternatives or which piece is which.

    Microsoft seem to be doing very well on this general level of ignorance. Ev

    --
    -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
• Encoding? (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  Maybe that person meant to insert a data: URI [wikipedia.org]? Or maybe s/he planned to use MIME::Base64::encode() [cpan.org]? :-)
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by bart (450)

    Gee, maybe the idea isn't as absurd as I thought? You could indeed use a special encoding to put binary data into a field instead of text. You will have to find a way to mark it as binary data, because you cannot rely on the text contents alone to recognize it as such. For example, you could always quote plain text, and use an unquoted data URI for binary contents.

    The spreadsheet program that is the target to read the file should be aware of the encoding, so it cannot be thought of as still being CSV, eve