On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:24 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Feb 18, 2008 1:08 PM, Graham Cossey <graham.cossey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My biggest gripe with tab delimited files is > > that they are quite a bit bigger than comma delimited files so I may > > have to split the large files I receive into smaller 'chunks' to allow > > them to be uploaded. > > > > > Why would tab-delimited files be larger than CSV? A tab character takes up > just as much space as a comma as far as document size is concerned. Am I > missing something? He's probably confusing tab delimited with fixed width columns. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
