From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-02-13T03:30:27+09:00
Subject: Re: String frustration


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Tim Kynerd (tim@tram.nu) wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:16:03 +0900, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
>=20
> Although I think I understand what's going on here, it leaves me wondering
> what would be a better way to do what I need to do, if there is a better
> way.
>=20
> The input file contains three tab-separated fields. The second field needs
> to be able to contain an arbitrary number of newlines (which will be
> realized as actual newlines, so to speak, when this field is later printed
> out).
>=20
> The only alternative I can see (to including them as "\n" in the second
> field) is to actually put the newlines into the file as newlines, so to
> speak, and specify a different string as the record separator (say,
> an uncommon character followed by a newline). However, this obviously
> makes the file rather difficult to create in a text editor, and to read.
>=20
> Then, since there happen to be exactly three fields in each line, there's
> the idea of tab-separating the "pieces" of the second field, then reading
> everything in, taking the first and last fields as the first and third,
> and interpreting everything in between as the second field. This would
> work, but I don't like it because it depends crucially on the fact that
> there are exactly three fields per line (and that may not remain true as I
> continue to play with this program I'm writing).
>=20
> Any other ideas?

YAML - http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=3Dyaml

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