11. Bits and Pieces

This section contains a couple of details for selected columns from where they are referenced. A back reference is included at the end of each chapter. Note that most of the following descriptions do not detail the contents but give a sample of the contents only. For those having dug that far it will be obvious how to decode the contents.

11.1 CSV Lists

A number of columns contain semi-colon separated lists in the format <key>=<value>; where these pairs can appear more than once thus forming a list of key-value pairs. Usually <key> is alphanumeric including ‘_’ (underscore). Value itself can contain any chars except ‘=’ and ‘;’.

I found that EA often does not check this constraint and if people enter e.g. a semi-colon in a name it will simply confuse EA in it’s later behavior but will not croak¹⁰ that an illegal char is used. Well, it’s EA.

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