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::If you can find such malformed data in the readings.txt file then it becomes an issue. Asking such what-if questions seem to be finding ways to fail.
::On the Python, AWK, and Perl examples being similar: people are able to submit their own solutions in those languages if they think their solutions better fit the usual style of writing in Python/Perl/AWK, indeed someone suggests changes to the AWK solution in the newsgroup although they weren't obvious to me. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 08:07, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
::: You can not assume that the source data has been formatted to suit your language. The very purpose of data munging is to convert the format when it is not what you need. (Although this task seems to be more calculating than format conversion.) Instead, we should assume that the data format is as it is in the example input file. Since in Rosetta Code we should try to keep the task as simple as possible, I think no error checking is needed.
::: 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)
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