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Can we somehow start to use the ascii 30 character aka the Record Separator (SP)? This would solve a lot of the problems!



Not as fun as you might think. I had to parse and write inkjet control files for commercial printing. It used record separators, group separators, and unit separators.

The problem? Records began WITH the RS character and there were NO line breaks.

Ended up writing my own library https://github.com/Wombatpm/VIPNT




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