On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Ludo Brands wrote:


Is there some defined on-disk format that sdfdataset should be
following?

As I understood it, it is either fixed length or CSV.
CSV as in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180



That is in contradiction with the existing implementation as well as the
following comments following comments in SDFData.pp

14/Ago/01  Version 2.00 (Orlando Arrocha)
          John Dung Nguyen showed me how to make this compatible with

You are erroneously assuming I actually read the comments.

C-Builder

and

     Delimiter property added to TSdfDataSet. No more dependency on
CommaText
        methodology -- choose your own delimiter.


Is fpc promoting version 77 of the sdf definition?

I added TSDFDataset to FPC because it added an implementation of CSV and fixed format data, because this is how I had used them.
That's all I cared about. I had never heard of SDF as a data format.
At the time, I probably assumed SDF were the initials of the author or so.

Michael.
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