Re: (tye)Re: parsing CSV file with embedded commas (fortunately, fixed-width) - is unpack the solution?

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That makes some sense... A seems to be for text (ascii?)... though I'm not sure what the difference tween A and a is. But what're the x's for? Single chars? Punctuation? !text?

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(tye)Re2: parsing CSV file with embedded commas (fortunately, fixed-width) - is unpack the solution? by tye (Sage) on Oct 31, 2001 at 23:00 UTC
"a$n" pulls out the next $n characters of text as a string. "A$n" does the same thing but strips spaces and "\0"s from the end. "x$n" skips $n bytes. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]

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