2014-03-27 17:28 GMT+01:00 sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: > 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 ... >
I don't see this as a requirement for 1.0. Additional formats can easily added in 1.1. Or does the API have to be changed to include 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
