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At frist, I thought that Remy was perfectl commenting on the
PAD,DINGby doing some creative punctuation himself. Alas, it is a typo, methinks.Admin
Or it would be if HTML didn't collapse multiple spaces into one.
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Shame there's no known way to work around that feature. ;)
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Use instead of spaces
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That's <script>alert("XSS")</script>
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That's
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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.
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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.
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It would seem our friend e is unfamiliar with winking sarcasm.
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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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[laughs in FORTRAN]
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Back when retrieval speeds were long and storage was expensive. Luckily no one wastes all that new speed and space!
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ITYM [code] 01 RECORD. 10 FNAME X(16). 10 LNAME X(16). 10 MI X. 10 FILLER X(15). 10 ADDR1 X(32). [/code/
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I think it's to indicate that padding was split across field boundaries.
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No. Don't. Learn to accept them. If ever in your travels you learn to love them know that you have turned wrongly. For upon that row leads complacency and the ever looming specter of that most evil bane of all developers, thinking you are clever. And the road to code hell is paved with clever solutions.