random832@fastmail.us wrote:
That said, I am using the tab on these lines to indicate how that line is handled, so a space there would cause a problem anyway, and I drop the 'extra' field to line things up again ... Why do you need something there to show how the line is handled? It's a continuation line because it's immediately after a zone/continuation line that doesn't have a termination date. As I understand the format, it's completely valid to have a continuation line with_no_ leading whitespace.
Convenience .... MOST of the tabulated data I'm pulling into systems one identifies the type of line and then pulls the data into the correct separate fields. IF a comment was included in the listing, then one would see the '#' and push that line into the info memo. The tab is currently a convenient tag to check then throw away just as the '#' is. Actually that then aligns the remaining fields with the right elements. But I'm just reusing existing routines. Reworking will come once I have data to play with. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk