Timothy Heckman Posted July 7, 2020 at 04:46 AM Posted July 7, 2020 at 04:46 AM Hey there, I'm working on a project to parse the VATSIM Whazzup status / data files. Quite often I see the character sequence "^§" appearing in ATIS information, and I'm trying to figure out the purpose. My initial thought was a UTF-8 encoding issue, but it didn't seem to be that. Is it meant to represent a newline in the output? Cheers! -Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted July 7, 2020 at 05:21 AM Posted July 7, 2020 at 05:21 AM Newline, yes. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Heckman Posted July 7, 2020 at 06:29 AM Author Posted July 7, 2020 at 06:29 AM Perfect. Thank you for the quick reply, Ross. Cheers! -Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted July 7, 2020 at 03:10 PM Posted July 7, 2020 at 03:10 PM Tim, I saw another person post a thread about the ATIS lines not parsing correctly and I checked the VAT-Spy code, and found that the newline character sequence is actually ^§ so it seems that the file currently has an extra character in between those two. I'll check with the server guys to see what's up. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Heckman Posted July 7, 2020 at 05:30 PM Author Posted July 7, 2020 at 05:30 PM 2 hours ago, Ross Carlson said: Tim, I saw another person post a thread about the ATIS lines not parsing correctly and I checked the VAT-Spy code, and found that the newline character sequence is actually ^§ so it seems that the file currently has an extra character in between those two. I'll check with the server guys to see what's up. So far in my career in software / site reliability engineering, many have joked that I am a one-man QA team. So, this is pretty on-brand for me to accidentally point this out. 🙂 Thank you for forwarding it along, Ross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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