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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 'find'
Date: Thu,  3 Jul 2003 16:59:17 +0000
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matt wrote:
> maybe we should have stuck with " as the delimeter

I think delimiters should be chosen from the set of
characters that one is willing to "live without" in
the delimited components.  That includes control
characters but not space, ", or /.  Control characters
can be displayed with some reasonable graphic and of
course are snarfable etc.