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| From | Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.awk |
| Subject | Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper |
| Date | 2025-08-11 04:10 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20250810210202.452@kylheku.com> (permalink) |
| References | <b208cecc-acca-4a4b-bce8-013c66682fcc@scorecrow.com> <107arnd$23gng$1@dont-email.me> <20250810124827.931@kylheku.com> <107b39j$3flec$1@news.xmission.com> |
On 2025-08-10, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote: > In article <20250810124827.931@kylheku.com>, > Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote: > ... >>But I suspect that the program is intended to be a helper >>when developing a program that uses FIELDWIDTHS. >> >>Your portable example is no longer testing/displaying what the value of >>FIELDWIDTHS is doing against the input data. > > It is pretty clear that Mr. Ed completely missed the point of the post. > > He should not feel bad about that. It is pretty obscure. It took me a few > reads to get it. I was half-way though posting a "WTF is this?" post in > response, when it dawned on me what the point of it was. Yeah; some people can't be bothered to communicate. E.g. "I have come up with a nice debugging aid that helps me fine-tune the values of FIELDWDITHS to correctly match my input. I simply take a stab at some FIELDWIDTHS values and then run this code against some actual input. The code prints the input record verbatim, then splits into fields using the proposed FIELDWIDTHS, and finally prints a representation of the field widths under the data to make it obvious what part of the data belongs to each field." -- TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca
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Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-08-10 21:34 +0000
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