My EDI Geek Friends will get this one...

[kyburg]

I have to make a mapping change to a customer who uses a long-ass PO number - we truncate it coming in, and append the prefix going out.

Well, now the suffix is the part being truncated - we need to modify the outgoing mapping to reflect it.

Just found comments from when I did this the first time:

//Takes the department number, with or without leading zeroes and appends to PO with one leading zero.
//Also leaps tall buildings in a single bound. 11/14/00 dhs

Hee.

Comments

[doki.livejournal.com]

In my recent "Fisharium" program/toy, I had a variable to represent a dead fish, facing right. The line was like:

CIMAGE drfish = { //not a real doctor

Larry Wall has some good quotables:
http://use.perl.org/quotes.txt
http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Wall/perl_related_humor.shtml