On 27 March 2014 15:49, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > FYI: > > Has anyone seen this? > > https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/ > > It actually makes sense. Good luck editing such files though...
Yes, how is one supposed to create them? I think those ASCII characters were used quite a lot in the early days of teletypes which had the appropriate keys. Also they were used in some serial line protocols. But of course once people needed to send binary data, escape codes or encoding had to be used. > I wonder if we should add a built-in format for this format? Are there (m)any files that use the format? Otherwise why bother ... > Gary > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second > Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
