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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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