My very first "tech" job was a gigantic glo-ball full of intense manual string manipulation! The company was downloading text versions of prospectuses from the SEC's EDGAR database and were paying a team of us to carefully insert all the necessary " " and "
" (no tag parsing on Slashdot posts, huh?) tags to tranform them into the most primitve of HTML formats. Remember, this was sensitive financial information so a misplaced character here and there could have serious consequences for the companies consuming this data. Usually took about a month for a single annual report to get through QA. FUN!
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" and "
" (no tag parsing on Slashdot posts, huh?) tags to tranform them into the most primitve of HTML formats. Remember, this was sensitive financial information so a misplaced character here and there could have serious consequences for the companies consuming this data. Usually took about a month for a single annual report to get through QA. FUN!