alt Hacker NewsI did a project to translate data framed in the ASCII field/record separator characters and it was gloriously easy. All the ugly escaping considerations with comma-delimited data went away and it became much easier.
I did a project to translate data framed in the ASCII field/record separator characters and it was gloriously easy. All the ugly escaping considerations with comma-delimited data went away and it became much easier.
What happens when the data contains the record or field separator characters?
I suppose you could document that it's unsupported, and just drop or reject such values, but then the system couldn't be used to handle test data for such systems, for example.