Of course, one advantage of using ASCII control separators is that they are by definition valid Unicode control separators.
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Keith Medcalf <[email protected]> wrote: > >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 > -- Scott Robison _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
