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Tool for formatting cabrillo files
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Preserve the visual table aspect of the file format #17

Closed tepperly closed 6 days ago

tepperly commented 2 months ago

Semantically, this .xcbr

QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1614|N6DVS|0001|trin|KY7M|4|AZ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1615|N6DVS|0002|trin|K7JQ|7|AZ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1619|N6DVS|0003|trin|KD2FSH|5|AZ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1620|N6DVS|0004|trin|K9OM|25|WI
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1621|N6DVS|0005|trin|W1AJT|14|NC
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1622|N6DVS|0006|trin|AH6KO|25|HI
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1624|N6DVS|0007|trin|N2NT|34|NJ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1626|N6DVS|0008|trin|K9CT|48|IL
QSO:|21040|CW|2022-10-02|1903|N6DVS|0355|trin|W6MZ|91|SDIE

is equivalent to this one

QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1614|N6DVS|0001|trin|KY7M  | 4|AZ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1615|N6DVS|0002|trin|K7JQ  | 7|AZ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1619|N6DVS|0003|trin|KD2FSH| 5|AZ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1620|N6DVS|0004|trin|K9OM  |25|WI
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1621|N6DVS|0005|trin|W1AJT |14|NC
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1622|N6DVS|0006|trin|AH6KO |25|HI
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1624|N6DVS|0007|trin|N2NT  |34|NJ
QSO:|14043|CW|2022-10-01|1626|N6DVS|0008|trin|K9CT  |48|IL
QSO:|21040|CW|2022-10-02|1903|N6DVS|0355|trin|W6MZ  |91|SDIE

I think it would be better to produce the second one because it makes it more human readable (when viewed with a fixed width font). Note I've also removed the leading and trailing pipe characters.

tepperly commented 2 months ago

You could say that I cheated here because I used the semantics of serial numbers to right justify them. If it's easier, everything could be left justified.

VictorDenisov commented 6 days ago

Fixed by one of recent changes