Ryan Rosario schreef:
Next time I am going to be much more careful. Tab delimited is probably better for my purpose, but I can definitely see there being issues with invisible tab characters and other weirdness.
No matter which delimiter you use, there will always be data that includes that delimiter, and you need some way to deal with it.
I prefer the approach that esr suggests in "The Art of Unix Programming" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html): define a delimiter (preferably but necessary one that doesn't occur frequently in your data) and an escape character. On output, escape all occurrences of delimiter and escape character in your data. On input, you can trivially and unambiguously distinguish delimiters in the data from delimiters between data, and unescape everything.
Cheers, Roel -- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
