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Re: Program to create csv file and write into it

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Program to create csv file and write into it
Date 2016-12-10 21:08 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87oa0j1oi3.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> writes:

> On Saturday December 10 2016 15:42, in comp.lang.c, "Ben Bacarisse"
> <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> writes:
<snip>
>>> and..... I got a correct csv file )))))))))))))))))))))) Sorry for all
>>> these smiles, but that's how I feel now )
>> 
>> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that's not a CSV file.  A CSV
>> file is a text file and would not contain all those nulls.  The records
>> would simply be contiguous lines.
>
> At first, I couldn't figure out what you and Alla were talking about; in my
> newsreader, her post terminated immediately after the
> 1,Ritz,Rob,200.00
> line, and contained neither the nulls you refer to nor the source code that
> she alluded to at the top of her post.
>
> But, then, I captured the original posting (in base64 format) and extracted
> the body text by hand. It appears that /my/ newsreader decided that the (now
> apparent) nulls marked the end of the post, and showed me neither the nulls
> nor anything that followed.

Ha.  I did not think that might happen!  I thought that maybe they would
simply be invisible.  They appear to me as ^@ so they were really
obvious.

I don't even know if nulls are permitted in news articles, but Google
certainly made the extra effort since it used a binary-safe
transfer-encoding to send the message.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-10 09:30 -0800
  Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-10 20:42 +0000
    Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-12-10 15:56 -0500
      Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-10 21:08 +0000
    Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-10 23:48 -0800
      Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-11 00:01 -0800
      Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-11 01:12 -0800
      Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-11 01:27 -0800
        Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-11 04:50 -0800
          Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2016-12-11 09:42 -0800
            Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 00:13 -0800
              Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-12 08:34 +0000
                Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 00:50 -0800
                Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-12 09:02 +0000
                Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 02:52 -0800
                Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-12 10:59 +0000
                Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 03:23 -0800
          Re: Program to create csv file and write into it mx2927 <mx2927@gmail.com> - 2016-12-11 20:44 +0100
            Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-11 23:57 -0800
              Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2016-12-12 01:06 -0800
      Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-11 11:39 +0000
        Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-11 04:47 -0800
          Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-11 14:43 +0000
            Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 00:56 -0800
      Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2016-12-11 09:38 -0800
        Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 00:44 -0800
          Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-12 08:48 +0000
          Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2016-12-12 01:19 -0800
            Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 02:30 -0800
            Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Manfred <noname@invalid.add> - 2016-12-12 15:10 +0100
              Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-12 12:35 -0800
  Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-10 14:29 -0800
    Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-10 23:57 -0800
      Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-11 00:33 -0800
        Re: Program to create csv file and write into it Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-11 01:19 -0800

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