> I'd like to catch the use the the Y: field for future extensions > like Y:someinfofield="some info field value" > This way we've maintained compitiblity with existing abc files > while having the possibilty of future expansion.
Perhaps Phil (as the person whose program has the strangest parser) is probably in the best position to answer this, but it occurred to me a while ago that maybe we don't need a whole new letter for such uses. Would it be feasible to allow multi-character header fields so long as they were introduced by a leading ":"? X:1 T:Thingummy's Reel M:C| :DanceInstructions: RSCDS Book 137, 2042 K:A ... That only needs one-character lookahead, which I think was what Phil was concerned about? (I'm going to be away for a week, OS 1:50000 sheet 48 302241, a mile off the nearest road with no modem). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
