Re: QSHELL SED insert

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:24 PM Arnie Flangehead
<arnie.flangehead@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can report good progress in my little script to insert lines into an xml
file in the IFS.

I am very glad that you are learning and progressing. However, if you
had led with a mention of XML, that would have garnered at least a few
responses along the lines of "there are better ways than sed".

I'll just make little test
stream files and little test scripts to test things from now on.

Not a bad way to go. You can go one better by making little stream
files that *are* scripts.

All of this is designed to remove the manual steps described in this
page: Serving
Up Spreadsheets <https://www.itjungle.com/2008/08/13/fhg081308-story01/>

Ah, and so we finally get to the *real* use case, which isn't even XML
but rather Excel files.

I am quite confident you don't want to alter your path now. You've
come so far on your current one. But this really would have been a
great opportunity to dip your toes into Python from the start.

John Y.