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- From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
- Subject: Re: not a test
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:52:59 GMT
- Approved: pull in those flabby tummies girls
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.135259.2443@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <1992Jul20.185304.837@amhux2.amherst.edu> <HWMHKR7@taronga.com> <1992Jul24.081515.20368@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Jul24.081515.20368@cbfsb.cb.att.com> cooper@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (Ralph 'Hairy' Moonen) writes:
- >Well, I thought about it some more, and someone replied that my solution would
- >be too inflexible. So first, we could externally #define the field separator.
- >Now it's a space, but you could easily see it changed to \t in the future.
- >The second is that maybe there are more than 1 FS's between the fields, so
- >you'd have to skip them.
-
- Cor. That'd make, lets see 2 changes to my version of this program.
- The last parameter to split() is the field seperator.
-
- Dylan.
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