From: "Skip Montanaro" <sk...@po...>
To: <ml...@id...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] CSV for PythonCard
>
> >> I suspect the docstring is a killer:
> >>
> >> Generalized to be usable for any delimiter but \n.
> >>
> >> Many tools can generate CSV files with fields containing newlines.
>
> Magnus> Really? And what do they use as record separator?
>
> Magnus,
>
> I don't know, but I suspect you process fields until you see a newline
> *between* fields. Clearly, an occurrence of a newline within a field
would
> have to be quoted.
>
> Please forward this along to pythoncard for me. Lists.sourceforge.net
> doesn't like me. :-(
>
> Skip
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