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Re: how to identify a fixed width file

by Cody Pendant (Prior)
on May 14, 2008 at 12:41 UTC ( #686502=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to how to identify a fixed width file

The definition of a fixed width file being [...] records may be of different lengths
There's your problem.

Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more
kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...

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Re^2: how to identify a fixed width file
by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2008 at 14:29 UTC
    Also...
    Now I can look at a file by eye and say yes it's fixed width, so it should be possible to do so programmatically.
    Didn't the natural language recognition folks start out saying something very similar?
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