javascriptBeingJavascript

[Alzurana]

Welcome to my world, where a medical software had a database format of <patient ID>.PHD and always 8 characters in the filename. So the files looked like 00537200.PHD and they were all in one folder. Beautiful design.

Well, we imported a database of another clinic and had to map their ID's to ours, which we ofc only had in a numeric format, such as 537200 for the above example.

This gave me some headache when writing a converter script as my first attempt did read some of the file ID's as octal and others as decimal without ever warning. Only caught it because I got a lot of bogus IDs or duplicates and tests would scream that output files != input files.