From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Oct  6 19:12:24 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0623016A4C9
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri,  6 Oct 2006 19:12:24 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu)
Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.100.219])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B5043D5A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri,  6 Oct 2006 19:12:23 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu)
Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1])
	by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k96JCMhW005306
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:12:22 -0500 (CDT)
	(envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu)
Message-Id: <200610061912.k96JCMhW005306@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-ID: <5301.1160161942.1@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:12:22 -0500
From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation Solved
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:12:24 -0000

	Those of you who recognised the example string I sent as
a UUID really helped solve this problem.  What happened was that
the algorithm I wrote to parse the CSV values in each record is
broken when it encounters a blank field as in ,, so it fails to
increase the index counter and place a null string at that point.
This meant that what I was reading as field W was actually more
like field Z.  I was actually looking at a field labeled "pkid"
or Packet ID which is the UUID you saw.  The algorithm I wrote to
parse worked perfectly on the first line of the file because
every field was populated but it silently failed on lines of real
data because of blank fields.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group