Re: Is there a dedicated unicode separator character?


"Karla" <LKarla@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns97D46A8FB1BFCa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.

Depends on your data. For any character you can select, I can provide you with an infinite number of strings which will contain that character. For example, if you select character U+whatever, there's the string of length 1 which contaisn only "\uwhatever", there's the string of length 2 which contains "\uwhatever\uwhatever", the string of length 3, and so on.

If it were up to me, I'd probably use one of the "private areas". But again, you might eventually receive data containing that character, so you'll have to have some sort of escaping mechanism anyway.

- Oliver

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