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On Dec 4, 2013 8:21 AM, "Thijs Schreijer" <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> I don't understand this is the readme, under Issues; "It won't cope with multiple delimiter characters between fields as might be seen in a whitespace delimited file. Instead it'll think there's lots of empty fields."
> (...)
> The multiple delimiters should result in an empty field 'zip' in this case, so that is expected behavior, not an 'issue' imo. What am I missing?

I think he meant that in a space-separated file, if you happen to put 2 spaces between 2 fields, it will read it as 3 fields, with the middle one being empty.