• some guy (unregistered)

    At frist, I thought that Remy was perfectl commenting on the PAD,DING by doing some creative punctuation himself. Alas, it is a typo, methinks.

  • Jason Stringify (unregistered)

    That's 16 characters of padding at the end of the file

    Or it would be if HTML didn't collapse multiple spaces into one.

  • (nodebb)

    Shame there's no known way to work around that feature. ;)

  • e (unregistered) in reply to WTFGuy

    Use   instead of spaces

  • e (unregistered) in reply to e

    That's &nbsp; <script>alert("XSS")</script>

  • e (unregistered) in reply to e

    That's &nbsp;

  • (nodebb)

    10 FNAME X(16). 10 LNAME X(16). 10 MI X. 10 PADDING-1 X(15). 10 ADDR1 X(32). . . . It's like riding a bicycle.

  • FTB (unregistered)

    This is why industry-standard DBF file format had a list of all the column positions and column widths at the start of the file.

    DBF has origins in the 1970s and was standardized in 1983.

  • (nodebb)

    It would seem our friend e is unfamiliar with winking sarcasm.

  • Argle (unregistered)

    As God is my witness, I should have a relevant comment on this story. I work in the aviation industry. Say hello to fixed-column data files. Learn to love them.

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