Re: Misprint in Gedcom V 5.5.1

[email protected] (Ron Savage) Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:37:24 +1000
Newsgroups perl.gedcom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Mike

On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 07:45 +0100, Mike Elston wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> No misprint. If you look at the definitions on p.13 of  
> "optional_line_value"  and "optional_xref_ID" the delimiter is  
> included there in each case. The document is quite correct, this is  
> how grammars are defined.

Yep, my mistake.

$many x $thanx;

> Otherwise the delimiter would be required before and/or after the tag  
> even if there was no optional field.

Sure. That's why pointers are @ ... @, meaning the delim is built-in.

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