Family Album irritation

[Phil Payne]

I had an interesting idea a couple of days ago, when I was thinking about parts commonality.  Wouldn't it be an idea to drive a
parts system backwards - i.e., I have a car in front of me at a breaker's - what does it have that would fit a Type nn?

A fairly easy problem to solve with appropriate application of IT - but not one forseen in any Audi system.  A lot of data, too ...

My ultimate goal is a WAP application - input the VIN of what you've found and the system SMSes you back with what you should take
off it.

So I set about extracting data from a system we all know and love, automatically building .HTML files after sorting and knocking out
duplicates.  And duplicates started to worry me.

There really are genuine duplicates in the raw data - every item that is on the bottom row of a page is on the top row of the next
page.  This isn't done by clever programming - they actually generate these entries twice!

I've just spent twenty minutes looking for a bug that's actually in someone else's code.

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  Phil Payne
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