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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by chubot on Sunday November 10, 2024 @12:30PM (#42101367)
That already exists -- TSV. You disallow the tab metacharacter.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by thayne on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:49PM (#42104656)
And the newline character. Both of which commonly occur in normal text.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by chrishill89 on Monday November 11, 2024 @11:19AM (#42108239)
Then I don't understand. Like the sibling comment said the really "problematic" character in TSV is the line feed. But a tab can occur as well.

The format that I described does not already exist in the form of TSV. And further based on your original comment I would have thought that both TSV and this format would be discarded as not-useful.

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