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Delimited formats performance can be exceptional, they can also be phenomenally terse and avoid the string tarpits of CSV and TSV if you just use these unicode
by fellowniusmonk 4y ago
Delimited formats performance can be exceptional, they can also be phenomenally terse and avoid the string tarpits of CSV and TSV if you just use these unicode characters.
U+241D, U+241E, U+241F
- tremon 4y agoOr these characters, from the ASCII era: SOH (U+01), US (U+1F), RS (U+1E), GS (U+1D), FS (U+1C)
- teddyh 4y agoThose are not the unit/record/group separator characters! Those are the graphical symbols for the unit/record/group separator codes. The actual unit/record/group separator codes are in ASCII, as 'tremon' writes in a sibling comment.
- fellowniusmonk 4y agoI guess I shouldn't post comments when I'm terribly hungover. The fact remains, use those seperators, most developers don't even seem aware of them to any degree.