Re: Compare 2 Tab Delimited

"Chase Preuninger" <chasepreuninger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't like the idea of tab delimited files. Use something else like
a comma or semicolon.

I'm a little curious as to what you have against tabs. The problem with
commas or semicolons or colons is that now you have to quote fields with
those characters, then handle the situation of the quote character being in
the fields too...namely, our favourite CSV flatfile format. Tabs as part of
your data is much less common, so it's a good delimiter. You normally don't
manually insert the tabs anyway, and any decent text editor has a "Show
whitespace" option if you find that necessary.

AHS


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