Re: Best X-delimited format?

[katgirl]

I use "|" (pipe) for most of mine... another question:

Is there any delimiter that should definitely not be used? Ever ever under any circumstances? On pain of... er... pain?

[insensate]

That probably depends on the nature of the data that you plan to delimit. I find that when I'm delimiting numbers that have decimals or commas, a decimal or comma delimiter tends to get really confusing :^). The same goes for delimiting strings with any common punctuation...I tend to use Text::ParseWords and don't run into much trouble. Jason

[fglock]

I'd never use a  \ because it hurts.

 - and . are some other bad ideas.