Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text
by crazygringo on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:28AM
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> There is no other valid use for them, so no escaping is necessary.
Famous last words...
> Have you ever used ASCII value 30 for anything, anywhere, in your life?
No but if this format took off I would be.
And then because text editors start displaying them so the files make sense, people start using them for other purposes, like separating values on a line or copying spreadsheet cells to the clipboard, because it's more "semantic", and those lines get pasted into a field in a tool that exports its data as CSV.
Famous last words...
> Have you ever used ASCII value 30 for anything, anywhere, in your life?
No but if this format took off I would be.
And then because text editors start displaying them so the files make sense, people start using them for other purposes, like separating values on a line or copying spreadsheet cells to the clipboard, because it's more "semantic", and those lines get pasted into a field in a tool that exports its data as CSV.
What then?