On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Hasan Diwan <hasan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Python (at least, maybe Ruby/perl as well) has a csv class whose
> constructor takes a delimiter, defaulting to ","; R accomplishes the same
> using read.table's sep parameter. OpenCSV, a Java class for manipulating
> CSVs, also has a notion of a separator. It's not too difficult to add, I'd
> be willing to do so, if there are enough "+1"s, let's say 4 in addition to
> myself.
>

I am not sure what you are taking about because [csv] already does all
this. The question is, more precisely, should we have a CSVFormat.ASCII
constant using the ASCII codes from the blog post.

Gary

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>
> On 27 March 2014 08:49, 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...
> >
> > I wonder if we should add a built-in format for this format?
> >
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