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

[Tom K. <kre...@gm...>]

I tried it with Komodo and noticed that it is inserting a control
character tri-graph of some kind for the units and record separators.
Tom K

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Jeff Hobbs <je...@ac...> wrote:
> 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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