Re^2: Parsing record into hash

Thank you, the data is an Amateur Radio Data interchange format. I think you are right that they saw XML and did not really know what was going on. Your solution is simple and now to understand it. So far two answers in two hours is great and two different ways of doing it.

Thanks Mike

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Re^3: Parsing record into hash by jhourcle (Prior) on Jul 05, 2006 at 13:30 UTC
I think you are right that they saw XML and did not really know what was going on. Actually, the format makes more sense than you and GrandFather give it credit. The general field format is: `'<' identifier ':' length '>' value` There also looks to be a date, that's marked 'd' , after the length (in field qso_date). I'd much rather have to parse this format than something like METAR, where you have to make guesses about the fields you're processing based on their order and format.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Parsing record into hash
by jhourcle (Prior) on Jul 05, 2006 at 13:30 UTC

I think you are right that they saw XML and did not really know what was going on.

Actually, the format makes more sense than you and GrandFather give it credit. The general field format is:

'<' identifier ':' length '>' value

There also looks to be a date, that's marked 'd' , after the length (in field qso_date).

I'd much rather have to parse this format than something like METAR, where you have to make guesses about the fields you're processing based on their order and format.

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