Has any one ever seen a backspace delimited flat file? My requirement is to parse such a file but I am not able to put a backspace character into a file to check if I am able to detect it.
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Has any one ever seen a backspace delimited flat file? My requirement is to parse such a file but I am not able to put a backspace character into a file to check if I am able to detect it.
Splitting shouldn’t be any harder than using any other delimiter. It’s just another character, after all. In Python, for instance:
Most languages use
\bas the escape character for a backspace. If yours doesn’t you can also include the ASCII control code for backspace itself, which is \x08.