>ASCII 30 is Record Separator. Use this where you might expect a newline. >ASCII 31 is Unit Separator. Use this where you might expect a comma.
>Files which used these codes (together with 28 and 29) used to be called >'Control Separated Data' files. So you used to see files with names like >SENSOR6.CSD . In SIXBIT, of course. >By the way, two US characters together indicates a blank field. But two >RS characters together does not indicate a blank row. You carry on as if >any number of RS together are all one RS. So you can delete a record >without having to change the length of a file by replacing all the >characters in the record with RS. This was useful when removing the >middle of a file could occupy a disk or tape drive for 20 minutes. >And yes, I'm old enough that I used to write programs that ran on >mainframes that used these codes. Fortunately the EBCDIC codes for IFS IGS IRS IUS are the same as the ASCI FS GS RS US respectively. Depends on the species of dinosaur in your pen :) >Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
