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Friday, September 23, 2011

Comma-Separated Values

General Introduction
This blog is devoted primarily to doing interesting and fun things using the Ada language.  I hope that my commentary about the code is sufficient for those unfamiliar with the language, but please let me know, if not.  I am not trying to write a book on Ada.  Most of the time I will be cherry-picking things of general interest from the on-going R&D work that I conduct in my spare time.  Gentle and Constructive comments are always welcome.

I hope you brought your appetite!

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Introduction to Comma-Separated Values
A comma-separated values file is a text file in which the values — whatever they are — are separated by commas.  Sometimes other characters are used to separate the values, and I wrote this program to allow the specification of one or more separating characters.  One may, for instance, desire to also use a space to make viewing the text file more readable.  The sample program here allows both a comma and a space to be used as separators.

Since I am new to blogs and Blogger in particular, the format may lack ease-of-readability.  I hope to rectify this in the future.