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0x1E is the record separator, in ASCII precisely for this purpose. Too bad it’s not popular, here we’re stuck with inferior TSV/CSV
by tboerstad 2y ago
0x1E is the record separator, in ASCII precisely for this purpose. Too bad it’s not popular, here we’re stuck with inferior TSV/CSV
- orf 2y agoStrings can contain 0x1E, so it has exactly the same issues as a tab character but with all the downsides of it not being an easy, “simple” character.
- mattnewton 2y agoI can't easily type that out - and once the format can't be read / editing in a simple text editor, I'm starting to lean towards a nice binary format like protobuf.