[Orca-users] Re: Varying number of columns in data.

[Allen Canning]

From: Allen Canning <canning at colltech.com>

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Blair Zajac wrote:

> From: Blair Zajac <blair at akamai.com>
> 
> That sounds great.  Actually, to be smart, it should check if the
> columns name change, even if the numbers do not.  I don't believe
> orcallator handles this case right now, but it should.
> 

What it does is look for the "/^ timestamp/" string on a
line, if it sees that then it increments a counter and
starts writing to a new file.  That way the
header/description line is still included in the file.

-- 
Allen
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