On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Zefram wrote:
Robert Elz wrote:
The final column is "comments" - there's no stated restriction on the characters that can be used in comments
True, and your interpretation with the comments beginning with a tab is possible. (I was half expecting DateTime::TimeZone (another repackaging of the database for CPAN), which went out promptly after 2012a, to have ended up with this interpretation, but it turns out it went with the two tabs being a single separator. I don't know how automated Dave Rolsky has that release process.) However, tab-separated-value tables conventionally don't allow tabs to be part of the data, each tab being a separator.
I noticed the issue and adjusted my parser to expect 1+ tab. -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/