Re: Orcad import .bom file into database

From: Nicholas O. Lindan (see_at_sig.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:16:04 GMT

"Steve at fivetrees" <steve@NOSPAMTAfivetrees.com> wrote

> The Orcad .bom file format is not easily parsed -
> it's columnar with line-breaks in strange (to a parser) places.

If it is the same as I remember (a DOS version) it was
bad, but not that bad. I remember doing it in AWK in not
too much time, hour or two, and most of that was figuring
out AWK - there isn't much to figure out.

Will the version of Orcad the OP is using send the BOM
out in csv form? Naw, probably not, or the question wouldn't
be asked. 

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