On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:29:17 PDT, Abner Gershon writes: <...> >I currently collect lists of information on many >topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders, >slides using a database program, Lotus approach. Since >I am the only user of this information I thought I >could record this information in text files using vim >and then use gawk and sed to access this data. > >I have done a little reading on how these programs >work and would like to know if it is generally better >to seperate columns with spaces or tabs for this >purpose and if this would be the most appropriate >technique for collecting and organizing such data.
Spaces. I strongly recomend spaces. Better yet would be ";" or "," but if your options are spaces or tabs, go for spaces. Why? You can do `sed s/"\ "/"something"/` but I could not figure out a way to do the same for tabs (tabs only, I know of [[:space:]] et al). cheers, &rw -- -- Actually, we have scientifically determined that Heisenberg did indeed -- sleep exactly here. However, we have no idea whatsoever just how fast -- asleep he was. -- Dave Aronson ----
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