Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: Anton Melser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am writing a programme which needs to parse the summary (_SUMMARY_)
>> returned by SA, and after combing the docs couldn't find relevant
>> specs. It appears that the lines are a fixed length, but I couldn't be
>> sure... is there anywhere I can get the specs so my parser doesn't do
>> silly things?
>>     
>
> The only spec I see about is this:
>
>       "%s %-22s %s%s\n%s"
>
> (From PerMsgStatus.pm line no.2784 as per v.3.1.8)
>   

And more to the point, that's not a spec, its an implementation.

The format could change at any time, should the devs feel that it would
be more readable if they did so.

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