Sept. 16, 2013
5:40 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013, at 12:55, Lester Caine wrote:
Tobias Conradi wrote:
It does not. There could also be separation by less than one white space character.
Only, one could not find it by looking for white space characters.
There is no reason that a format could not be fixed length fields simply padded with spaces as required. If an entry uses all the space then no separation. Pulling in data originally formated on 80 column punched often did that simply to get the most data on the card. That is where my 'header code' comes from, the first 2 characters identify the record type, and the next character is the first field of data so no white space :)
People don't use the term "separated" for that.