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[ddlm-group] Removing comma from non-delimited strings
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- Subject: [ddlm-group] Removing comma from non-delimited strings
- From: James Hester <jamesrhester@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:49:06 +1000
Dear DDLm group, As foreshadowed in the comma-as-list-delimiter discussion, I would like to suggest adding comma to the list of disallowed characters in non-delimited text strings, for the following reasons: (1) This will improve human readability inside lists if the data value contains commas, for example: _my_numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] is a single-element list although it will appear to be a 7 element list to all but a CIF2 expert. (2) Robust CIF2 programs can interpret commas as list delimiters without danger of misinterpretation. -- T +61 (02) 9717 9907 F +61 (02) 9717 3145 M +61 (04) 0249 4148 _______________________________________________ ddlm-group mailing list ddlm-group@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/ddlm-group
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