alt Hacker NewsWhat 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.
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bobmcnamara • today at 3:04 PM
Easy - don't
In the case of this system (a quasi-EDI interface used to move records from a fleet fueling point-of-sale system to the ERP software) those characters were forbidden by the source application. My code would have exploded in a fireball if they had been present, but the specification said they couldn't be.