Re: [tz] tabs vs spaces

On Wed, May 1, 2013, at 1:42, David Muir Sharnoff wrote:

I wanted to extract some of the data from the timezone files so I wrote a quick parser for them. In the process I discovered 1,477 lines that have spaces where they should have tabs.

Tokens in the timezone files are separated by _any whitespace_. In most languages, splitting up by 'any whitespace' is the simplest thing in the world. In C (where nothing is simple), you could reuse the code from zic itself.