On 03/09/14 20:12, Carsten Kunze wrote: >> I've recently seen the usage of the ^G character as field >> separator. That is a good idea, since it should avoid most >> possible conflicts with user input. But does anyone know >> what does this character means, and why does it seems to be >> prefered to other control characters ? > > Maybe to avoid problems with strings which contain ' or ". > ' as separator is much better readable....
Agreed, but to answer the first part of the OP's question, ^G is the ASCII BEL code; i.e. the code sent to ring the bell on a teletype. -- Regards, Keith.
