The best way to store arrays as text file?

[J. Landman Gay]

David Bovill wrote:

> In general no delimiter is completely safe - safest would be XML is my 
> guess

Au contraire. :) I routinely use non-printing characters as delimiters 
because the user cannot type them. My favorites are numtochar(3) and 
numtochar(8) which are the enter and delete keys. They work fine as 
delimiters, but there is no way a user can enter them into the actual 
data. There are others you can choose from too, down in the lower ascii 
levels.

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