There are more suggestions hanging in the air waiting to be shot down.
Character replacement in c is very cheap.
So why not feed Diederik's filter with tab delimited data, and export space
delimited data?
The filter first replaces all (non delimiting) spaces by underscores, then
replaces all (delimiting) tabs by spaces.
Simple, and downwards compatible.
Erik
From: analytics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Diederik van
Liere
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:57 PM
To: analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Analytics] Using tab as delimiter instead of space in the log
files
So far nobody has responded to my inquiry on whether they would be affected
by this chance. So please let us know if you are consuming a server log and
you are expecting spaces as delimiters. We want to make sure that we are
aware of all the people that will be affected by this.
Best,
Diederik