Re: [FWP] Interpreting a columnar text file.

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Chaim" == Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:

Chaim> That also isn't the best solution, Randal worked around the problem by
Chaim> padding the input. But it may be easier to simply change the last entry
Chaim> to A* rather than padding.

You run into a problem if the next-to-last item is also not present though.
unpack() gets mad when told to 'x' something that isn't there. :)


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