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There's a bunch of ASCII characters (28 - 31) specifically meant to be used as delimiters, but they never caught on. But even if they did, you still always nee
by em500 8y ago
There's a bunch of ASCII characters (28 - 31) specifically meant to be used as delimiters, but they never caught on.
But even if they did, you still always need to handle the case where one might legitimately want to use the delimiter character inside a field value.
- kickingvegas 8y agoWow, TIL this actually exists. Mind is blown on how they never got adopted outside of folks thinking (foolishly) that these characters were not "plain" text.
- srean 8y agoThis is one of my disappointments -- the fact that unit and field separators did not catch on.