Date:         Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:27 +0000
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Line feed characters in delimited input files
Comments: To: Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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At 12:12 21/02/2008 -0500, Gerhard Hellriegel wrote:

>hmm the DSD logic should not be a real problem. The splitting into records
>should work without problems, because of the "0D0A"x at the end of a line.
>The rest is the splitting of the variables. That should be not a big
>problem. If there are 2 blanks then ??? Don't know...
>Gerhard

Well, I'm sure it could be done with a bit of 'plodding', but I've got to
be able to deal with input files:

(a) with multiple blanks in places
(b) with consecutive delimiters in places
(c) with (non-delimiting) delimiting characters within quoted strings

Kind Regards,


John

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