jejones@ea.UUCP (01/09/85)
Yet another entry in the My Face Is Red Dept. (I promise to henceforth be silent about my blunders, so that you can have the pleasure of finding them yourself and laughing): do note that sort and column could both be considerably simplified, and the amount of common code increased as well, if, instead of taking astonishing pains in pulling fields out of lines, one simply invoked a function that took a ->line, your favorite delimiter, and an array of pointers (probably also an upper bound on # of fields) and filled the array in. This would also win big on sort inasmuch as one could quit early wherever possible on comparisons. The corrections are left as an exercise. James Jones