Talk:Text processing/1
Why?
I was reading through old blog entries and thought it would be appropriate (minus the focus on speed).
Please clarify the task
- Syntax errors in the file to be detected?
- The field separator is what? One space, any non-empty chain of spaces, any non-empty chain of spaces or tabs. Something else?
- Average to evaluate over all fields or else over each field separately?
- When at the same line some fields are flagged invalid but others are not, is it a gap? Or is it only when all fields are invalid?
- Further, do valid fields participate in averaging when some other fields at the same line are invalid?
- When a field is not present is it a syntax error or a gap?
- What to do when syntactically wrong fields appear (not a number, too large number etc)?
--Dmitry-kazakov 12:13, 8 November 2008 (UTC)