Greg, I misunderstood the thrust of your question. I disagree we need a specialised format for this, as the first I've heard of these codes was in your initial email. I've not seen them used "in the wild", as it were, either. However, if there's enough pushback in the other direction, I'll keep my views to myself. -- H
On 27 March 2014 09:43, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from my mobile device > > Envoyé de mon portable > > > > > > -- > 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 > -- Sent from my mobile device Envoyé de mon portable
