Re: Is there a dedicated unicode separator character?

In article <Xns97D46A8FB1BFCa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Karla <LKarla@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

U+2028 is a line separator
U+2029 is a paragraph separator

Is there a unicode character that means nothing but "field separator"?

I'd like to create a ? separated file that will have the least possible
chance of containing data that accidentaly has the field separator in it.

-Karla

I'm no Unicode expert, so I don't know what those characters are
supposed to mean. But the concept of a "field separator" has to rely on
what constitutes a "field" in some context.

When the context is a "command line", the separator between each "field"
or argument is traditionally white space -- one or more characters. In
the Unix awk environment where I once did tons of scripting, that same
default occurred, but it could be changed readily, which made it easy to
handle delimited data -- such as the so-called CSV or comma-separated
values format.

So...your context determines what a "field separator" will be.

= Steve =
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
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