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Comment on ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text

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The fact that CSV is still strong is that it already covers all „shortcomings” (I.e. presence of quotations in the content) mentioned by this article.

Yep, the only advantage I see with using ASCII control characters is that you can save a few bytes depending on the content. To make this approach robust, escaping is still needed.

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