<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Jason KG4WSV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kg4wsv@gmail.com" target="_blank">kg4wsv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-"><div class="gmail_quote">Reduction in readability, unnecessary parsing difficulty and non-extensibility. </div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What extensibility is it lacking? New power sources?</div><div><br></div><div>Reduction in readability compared to what? I'm proposing this as a replacement for symbol overlays.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-"><div class="gmail_quote">All fields should be start with either the appropriate APRS data type identifier or field separator and end with either a field separator or the end of packet. </div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So if a station capability parser encounters ",PWR=SB&," what should the parser do with the ampersand? </div><div><br></div><div>It seems like you're talking about the tokenizer, which I wasn't talking about. I'm only talking about how to parse this field. Tokenizing APRS packets is a kettle of fish I want nothing to do with, because I don't think you can depend on everyone using field separators in comment fields.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-"><div class="gmail_quote">For status packets and comment fields the field separator is (or should be) a space. <br></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It should be, but I think I've seen Bob recommend / as well. Where's the most relevant documentation on data extension field separators these days?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF<br><a href="http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/</a></div></div>
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