> I'm really not sure what the question is anymore.
The question is how to recognize that a string is actually sexagesimal coordinates. If a text box on a form allows coordinates or object name, how can code be written to decide what it is.
The answer I am seeing is that you spend 3 days writing 500 lines of Perl to disambiguate the numerous symbols and endless lemmas and codicils, then you fight like hell to keep that code useful by refusing to constrain the sexagesimal format even in the slightest, and forcing every other developer to go through the same 3 day bootcamp that you did.
Roy
California Institute of Technology
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Received on 2006-09-18Z22:09:34