Garrett Rooney writes:
> On 4/16/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
>
> > We could use spaces and require spaces to be escaped if that improves
> > readability. (I guess my notion of readability is somewhat different
> > than others'). I don't have a strong opinion here, but I think it is
> > useful to use different separators for fields and records. Note that
> > there is no known count of fields for the sake of extensibility.
>
> Spaces might help, because at least then when an editor wraps the line
> it has a place to break... I still think newlines would work best
> though.
>
How do you determine the end of a record when empty lines may be both empty
fields and the end of the record?
(I think the best way to improve readability is a pretty-printing
script or something like s/|/\n/, but I'm not really in love with the
pipe characters either:-)
Best,
//Peter
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Received on Mon Apr 17 22:00:07 2006