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Re: CSV methodology

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On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:29:48 -0400 (EDT), Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:

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>Looks to me like your MXP has produced a single line file, with
> all the values on that single line separated by commas.

Yes, that's exactly right.

> If the
> data is really uniform,  then it'd be more customary to put one
> item per line. But your sample seems to imply the data is a float
> followed by 3 ints. If so, then I'd expect to see a line for each
> group of 4.

See, that's why I figured there was something I was missing with
regard to csv files, in general.  Specifically, what the end-of-line
character would be;  traditional CR/LF pair, or... something else.

>The only advantage of a csv is if the data is rectangular.  If
> it's really a single column, it should be one per line,  and
> you'd use readline instead. 

Thank you very much for your input.

Jeff

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  Re: CSV methodology Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-14 03:02 -0400
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        Re: CSV methodology jayte <jetrn@newsguy.com> - 2014-09-15 12:33 -0400
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    Re: CSV methodology Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-09-14 01:56 -0700
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