Re: Auto splitting of long lines into CONT and CONC tags?

[email protected] (Ron Savage) Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:21:06 +1100
Newsgroups perl.gedcom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Steve

On 03/01/13 15:40, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does Gedcom.pm have a way to auto split long note lines into multiple
> CONT and CONC subordinate lines?
>
> Since the total length of a GEDCOM line, including leading white space,
> level number, cross-reference number, tag, value, delimiters, and
> terminator, must not exceed 255 (wide) characters, it is a little
> complicated to compute all the adjustments based on indentations and tag
> level etc.

IIRC the spec for GEDCOM discourages indentation.

And AFAIK, the answer is no. I guess you'll have to do it yourself.

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