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::: Indeed, the task should be defined in the task page. You can not expect people to go to some other site and read lengthly forum conversations in order to find out what to do. Of course it does help a bit if there is a solution done by the person who defined the task in some language. But not everybody knows every language.
::: --[[User:PauliKL|PauliKL]] 13:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::::PauliKL is right, this task seems to be more calculation than munging. Perhaps a new, similar, locally defined task could be made using the same data file (the date formatting is especially good for munging and some languages use _ for negative numbers instead of -)? The gap calculation seems like too much--like it's getting too far away from munging. Maybe just count the number of bad values in each line and report that in the line stats? I wouldn't worry about errors that much either. If anything, I would consider it bad data on an error (bad line for errors on dates and bad value for errors on values or flags) and just skip it.--[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 14:25, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
: I think we should assume that the format is as in the example input file readings.txt. That is:
:* Field separator = single Tab character
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