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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by evoke4908 on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:01AM (#42100835)
No, no one has ever used that character because it can't be typed or displayed which is the entire point of the thread you're replying to
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by cornel_io on Sunday November 10, 2024 @12:21PM (#42101318)
Sometimes the content of a cell in e.g. a CSV file will be another CSV file. This inevitably happens with pretty much every format, whether CSV, TSV, JSON, etc, so you'll need some sort of quoting rule no matter what you do.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by velcrovan on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:03AM (#42100842)
But that’s my point. The person I responded to was objecting that they might want to use control characters like ASCII 30 as values in a field. As you and I agree, that will never happen.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by croes on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:06AM (#42100860)
What about the cases where people don’t want to use it but still do?

People C&P values from a source that includes those characters and they‘ll break your export file

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