Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Jul 16 18:29:29 CDT 2009
"never" is a long time :-) Guess you haven't yet had to handle data which includes: regular expressions DOS command lines BNF (Bachus-Naur Form) expressions Mathematical expressions (it's used in lots of different ways there) Pronunciation guides using the International Phonetic Alphabet just to name a few areas where they can occur regularly -- Stuart On 16 Jul 2009 at 18:33, jwcolby wrote: > Given a choice, I ask for pipe delimited. Pipes just always work, and you never find them in data. >