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Re:How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Se... by spilk on Saturday October 03, 2015 @01:31PM (#10324611)
Why use a character like tab, which can also appear in common text, when there are control characters designed exactly for this purpose? ASCII 0x1C - 0x1F are there specifically for machine parsing of tabular data.
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Re:How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Se... by TorKlingberg on Saturday October 03, 2015 @01:34PM (#10324621)
If you use control characters, it is not plain text any more. It's hard to edit with a text editor.

Tabs have a similar problem: They look like spaces in a simple text editor like notepad.

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Re:How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Se... by jsprogrammer on Saturday October 03, 2015 @02:00PM (#10324737)
This just seems like a failing of the text editor.

But, if you can't input the character...you can't input the character.

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