23 May
2005
23 May
'05
4:26 p.m.
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
Al can decide if it should be text only, html, excel,
etc. If there is a
vote I vote text only either comma delimited (with quotes when needed) or
fixed width fields that would be easier to read.
This is more of just a general observation applicable to everything:
commas are convenient and intuitive but a much better delimiting character
for anything you do is the vertical line | because it rarely if ever shows
up in text either machine generated or hand-written and will therefore not
cause interference in field data containing commas when parsing.
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