Programming

17705 readers

15 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

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

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] lurklurk 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Then you can just use a conmon delimiter like comma or semicolon or something. It's better even as you're less likely to have something that seems to work until your exotic delimiter pops up in the data.

Better yet, use a commonly used data format like csv or json and don't build your own