ProgrammingEnglish · 4 months ago

Can you use 0x1E-0x1F ASCII codes?

27

Can you use 0x1E-0x1F ASCII codes?

ProgrammingEnglish · 4 months ago

After needing to find a small delimiter for my data format I started wondering if I could use 0x1E-0x1F?

They are part of the control codes so I thought they might do something weird?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_separators

Chat

FizzyOrange
link
fedilink
arrow-up
3·
4 months ago
Indeed. Escape characters add a lot of additional complexity, footguns, and performance penalties.

Programming

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person’s post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you’re posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don’t want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

60 users / day
1.25K users / week
2.23K users / month
7.15K users / 6 months
2.68K local subscribers
19.5K subscribers
2.12K Posts
34.2K Comments
Modlog