The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...
I've received a new file to import in our database and the *censored* DBA are the other end got creative with the format. he decided to use 0x01 as field delimiters and 0x02,0x0a,0x10 as record ...