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  • Count Lines Of Code

    The number of lines of code is not a very useful metric for evaluating good code or a good developer. However, it is sometimes useful to know how much code you have. For example, I recently worked on a project converting a VB 6 application to .NET. When we were finished, it was interesting to see how...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Fri, Sep 25 2009
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  • Reading Fixed Length Files

    There may be times that you need to read fixed length files into your application. For example, you obtain output from a legacy system or other application in a fixed length text file format, and you need to read and use that data in your application. NOTE: For more information on fixed length files...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Aug 25 2009
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  • Reading Comma Delimited Files

    There may be times that you need to read comma separated value (CSV) files into your application. For example, you obtain output from a legacy system or other application in a comma delimited text file format, and you need to read and use that data in your application. NOTE: For more information on delimited...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Aug 25 2009
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  • Text Files

    There are many different types of text files that you may need to process in your applications. Some of the more common types are described in this post. Delimited files Delimited files separate the fields of the file with some type of a delimiter. The most common delimited files are comma separated...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Aug 25 2009
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  • Formatting Text Files

    There are often times that you need to write out text files containing data managed by your application. For example, you may need to write out a file to be read by another system. In many cases, this file needs to have a particular format, with justified or aligned columns like this: 000001  Baggins            ...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Jul 21 2009
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