Vincent Lefevre writes:
> On 2006-04-18 03:38:13 -0400, John Szakmeister wrote:
> > Doubtful... they're present in the source code right now, and your
> > editor seems to be doing fine. :-) Take a look just below the
> > copyright header, and you'll find one. Just below #includes, you'll
> > find another. Most editors I've come across seem to work fine with
> > the form-feed character.
>
> What if you want to describe the file format on the web page and give
> an example? What if you want to do a copy-paste from a text terminal?
> What if you want to include a part of the file in a mail (e.g. for a
> bug report)?
>
> Also, the control character needs to be displayed by the editor under
> some form, and it could be confused with normal characters.
>
> IMHO, for all these reasons, it would be better to avoir control
> characters (except for the end of lines, of course) and trailing
> spaces.
>
Well... I find some of your examples above somewhat contrived.
If you want to document this in HTML with examples, you'll need to
find a notation that loos good in a web browser. I can't see how that
could reasonably be a factor when deciding upon the file format. We
are talking about an internal data format here, not a format that
users normally will have to deal with.
What would you propose as field/record separators?
Regards,
//Peter
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Received on Tue Apr 18 22:20:33 2006