Re: Challenge: reading ascii data

LR wrote:

(snip)

And maybe we should consider making those index numbers range from 1..1000? No, that's too limiting. Maybe 1..1000000?

Since it needs string processing anyway, there isn't much reason
to limit them at all. The AWK version, and probably the ruby version,
doesn't limit them, or even require that they be numbers.

-- glen

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