Index: work/alien_formats/altium_parser/pcbdoc_ascii.c
===================================================================
--- work/alien_formats/altium_parser/pcbdoc_ascii.c	(revision 35275)
+++ work/alien_formats/altium_parser/pcbdoc_ascii.c	(revision 35276)
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 			break;
 
 		/* by now "next" points to the first character of the next block */
-		blk = malloc(sizeof(altium_block_t) + (next-curr));
+		blk = malloc(sizeof(altium_block_t) + (next-curr) + 1);
 		if (blk == NULL) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "pcbdoc_ascii_load_blocks: failed to alloc memory\n");
 			return -1;
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
 			fprintf(stderr, "pcbdoc_ascii_load_blocks: can't read that many: %ld from %ld (%ld; max is %ld)\n", blk->size, curr, curr+blk->size, max);
 			return -1;
 		}
+		blk->raw[blk->size] = '\0';
 		gdl_append(&tree->blocks, blk, link);
 /*		printf("curr=%ld next=%ld\n", curr, next);*/
 		curr = next;
@@ -118,11 +119,62 @@
 }
 
 
-static int pcbdoc_ascii_parse_blocks(altium_tree_t *tree)
+static int pcbdoc_ascii_parse_blocks(altium_tree_t *tree, const char *fn)
 {
 	altium_block_t *blk;
+	long line = 1;
 
 	for(blk = gdl_first(&tree->blocks); blk != NULL; blk = gdl_next(&tree->blocks, blk)) {
+		char *s = blk->raw, *end;
+
+printf("---blk---\n");
+
+		for(;;) { /*  parse each line within the block */
+			int nl = 0;
+
+			/* ignore leading seps and newlines, exit if ran out of the string */
+			while((*s == '|') || (*s == '\r') || (*s == '\n')) s++;
+			if (*s == '\0')
+				break;
+
+			/* parse the record header */
+			if (strncmp(s, "RECORD=", 7) != 0) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "First field must be record in %s:%ld\n", fn, line);
+				return -1;
+			}
+			s+=7;
+			end = strpbrk(s, "|\r\n");
+			if (end == NULL) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "Unterminated record in %s:%ld\n", fn, line);
+				return -1;
+			}
+			*end = '\0';
+printf("rec='%s'\n", s);
+			s = end+1;
+
+			/* parse fields */
+			for(;;) {
+
+				/* ignore leading seps and newlines, exit if ran out of the string */
+				while(*s == '|') s++;
+				if (*s == '\0')
+					break;
+
+				/* find sep */
+				end = strpbrk(s, "|\r\n");
+				if (end == NULL) {
+					fprintf(stderr, "Unterminated field in %s:%ld\n", fn, line);
+					return -1;
+				}
+				if (*end != '|')
+					nl = 1;
+				*end = '\0';
+printf("  %s\n", s);
+				s = end+1;
+				if (nl)
+					break;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -149,7 +201,7 @@
 		return -1;
 
 
-	return pcbdoc_ascii_parse_blocks(tree);
+	return pcbdoc_ascii_parse_blocks(tree, fn);
 }