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

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

I originally found this at

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600

and by now it has actually accumulated some comments.
(I saw it with 1 comment, now 80+).




On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Tom Krehbiel <kre...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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