OpenEuphoria

Re: my dilemma -- hundreds of record types

• Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 15, 2002
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On 15 Nov 2002, at 14:10, Chris Saik wrote:

> 
> I think I answered my own question.  The FTP feed
> always begins new tags on a new line.  I could just
> check the first character of the line that I'm
> currently reading in, and if it's a "<" then I can
> assume it's a new tag. 
> 
> Although, if someone used "<" within the data, and it
> just happened to be the first character of the line,
> then it wouldn't work... 
> 
> hmmm... 

This is why i used gets(), it breaks on the newline, and each field i added to 
the base sequence in a nested way, making searching the ftpdata for a 
specific tag easy as pie, yet keeps the fields separate. Little databases like 
this are so easy in Euphoria.

Kat

> > 
> > Thank you Irv.  I'm confused over one thing
> > though...
> > what if the data following the tag is several lines
> > long, as in a paragraph?  How would I print the
> > entire
> > data within the field, and stop when the program
> > reaches the next tag? 
> > 
> > Thanks for your assistance,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> >
> 
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