On Saturday 21 July 2007 15:46, Brian Hancock wrote: > Hi Wiebe, > > I am not exactly sure... I can;' remember where I got this information > from... but I put it into my DP Cheatsheet for times like this... However > I do seem to remember that in many cases whitespace is ignored so
Hmm, "many" cases...? > > #C: > =1=*1"Kirk"*3 BO "Boldly" > BF "go where no man has" > UO "tread" UF > CR "--------------------------------------"** > > gives the same result (I think) as > > #C: > =1=*1"Kirk"*3 BO "Boldly" BF "go where no man has" UO "tread" UF CR > "--------------------------------------"** > > whitespace being newlines or spaces... I'll do some tests. > > Now the really nice thing about this in Ruby is that you have PERL-like > Regular Expressions, so you should readily be able to either check its > validity or parse it into its components Actually, parsing the file wasn't very doable with regexp's. We used the traditional manner: a finite state machine implemented by a loop over the string. _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
