Re: Reading fixed width data?

[CdeMills]

forkandwait wrote:
> 
> CdeMills <Pascal.Dupuis <at> worldonline.be> writes:
> 
> 
>> What do you call exactly 'fixed-width' ? Binary ? Delimited by some
>> specific
>> char ?
> 
> A given element will be stored in a certain range of character spaces on a
> line,
> all of the same width ("fixed") for every line.  In contrast to
> "delimited". 
> 
> I think I need to use sscanf somehow.
> 
> 
In this case, you can play with substr to extract one field and sscanf to
read it.

Regards

Pascal
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