Re: [Tcllib-devel] learn something every day ... ascii delimited text

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Yeah, but try and type those characters into UIs like excel or google spreadsheets when trying to import such a file. ;)

Maybe they are smart enough to know those standards, but I suspect otherwise.

Jeff

> On Mar 26, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Andreas Kupries <and...@ac...> wrote:
> 
> https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/
> 
> summary:
> use ascii chars decimal 28-31 as separators, they are defined for that purpose
> => file, group, record, unit separators (in numerical order)
> 
> Compared to csv and tsv (comma, tab):
>  units = fields,
>  records = lines
> 
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