bookmarks extension
Frank A. Kingswood
frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk
Tue Mar 3 15:03:33 CST 2009
Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Can you explain why this particular format is so difficult to parse?
>
> Yes, you can't use line.split(), but you can use line[1]. I am sure
Tcl has similar functionality.
The POSIX shell does not have substrings, but it can split on words.
> Optional fields are often less simple and more error prone.
Agreed. But for this, the optional field should not disappear from view.
> ps: If I had a need for parsing Mercurials output then I would
request something like Marshalled Python output.
Yes. I don't like P4 much as a version control tool, but at least it has
a machine-readable output.
Frank
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