Can you use 0x1E-0x1F ASCII codes? (lemm.ee)

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After needing to find a small delimiter for my data format I started wondering if I could use 0x1E-0x1F?

They are part of the control codes so I thought they might do something weird?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_separators

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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago

Indeed. Escape characters add a lot of additional complexity, footguns, and performance penalties.

this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2024

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