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As long as your data is not binary, so does not contain record separators itself, this would be a thousand times better than CSV (because text data _does_ often contain commas and double quotes).

The only thing you'd need is editors to support some way of entering and displaying the RS, and CTRL+^ is a bit of a kludge as it ends up CTRL+SHIFT+6.

Of course, if a record itself can contain RS for subrecords, things become more complicated. I guess you could use `\^`.



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