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		haddr on Nov 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Te... The fact that CSV is still strong is that it already covers all „shortcomings” (I.e. presence of quotations in the content) mentioned by this article.

cellardweller on Nov 10, 2024 [–]

Yep, the only advantage I see with using ASCII control characters is that you can save a few bytes depending on the content. To make this approach robust, escaping is still needed.

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