Re: [CSV] ASCII Delimited Text - Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-28 Thread Gary Gregory
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > 2014-03-27 17:28 GMT+01:00 sebb : > > > On 27 March 2014 15:49, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > FYI: > > > > > > Has anyone seen this? > > > > > > > > > https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-cs

Re: [CSV] ASCII Delimited Text - Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-28 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2014-03-28 15:15 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory : > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Benedikt Ritter > wrote: > > > 2014-03-27 17:28 GMT+01:00 sebb : > > > > > On 27 March 2014 15:49, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > > FYI: > > > > > > > > Has anyone seen this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://ronaldduncan.

Re: [CSV] ASCII Delimited Text - Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-28 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2014-03-27 17:28 GMT+01:00 sebb : > On 27 March 2014 15:49, Gary Gregory 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 s

Re: [CSV] ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-27 Thread Hasan Diwan
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

Re: [CSV] ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-27 Thread Gary Gregory
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Hasan Diwan 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

Re: [CSV] ASCII Delimited Text - Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2014 15:49, Gary Gregory 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 crea

Re: [CSV] ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-27 Thread Hasan Diwan
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 t

[CSV] ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

2014-03-27 Thread Gary Gregory
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