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On Tuesday 14 May 2002 09:00, you wrote:
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:52:21PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:File is a text file with some Ctrl D characters that appear as separators in the middle of lines that have a textual qualifier appended to the rubric of a Read Code (diagnostic or event code from the national thesaurus). In DOS they show as diamonds. There are also some IBM box-drawing characters. Apart from that it seems to be pure text.so ... the record separator is a newline (with a possible carriage return?)
CRLF
the field separator is a Ctrl-D
No. No fields, just text written out. The Ctrl-D is a graphics character.
So, it's no more than a csv file with a different separator? Unless the fields are fixed width, that is.
I'll look at Perl .dbf reading. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.