On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:34:42 +0100 Simon Slavin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Better might be to use ASCII as designed. It defines position 30 > > as a record separator. > > I'm clarifying that only to stop someone writing wrong code, not to > be annoying. > > 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. Thanks for the correction, Simon. I don't know how I got through my message without noticing that "R" stands for record! For anyone with 30 minutes to spare on the history of ASCII, I recommend "An annotated history of some character codes or ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Infiltration" by Tom Jennings. The URL has changed lately such that Google doesn't put it at #1; it's now at: http://worldpowersystems.com/J/codes/. --jkl _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
