On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:59:25 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > >second: from the moment on when we terminated to exchange >files by paper tape, we should have stopped to put tabs into files >from that same moment on - if not before. My opinion ... > Why? Where else would you keep them?
>> Regards tabs separating fields in external representations of database >> records: >> there are other possibilities. Commas and semicolons are not nice, but it >> works, >> More seriously, if the data fields legitimately contain commas and/or semicolons, tab is a more useful field separator. If the data contain tabs? Well, that's a good place to apply your argument for avoiding tabs. Legibility? That goes directly back to the OP's question. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
