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Representation of nonprintable delimiters

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Especially if you are working with the data format "CSV", delimiters have to be defined. If a non-printable character is to be used as a delimiter, for example, a control character, the character cannot simply be entered with the keyboard. In these cases, a representation of the non-printable character is required.

TAB

Tabulator.

NL

Newline.

CR

Carriage return.

0x<hexcode>

Specification as hex code (2 digits).

This representation works for:

Some functions allow a different form of representation. To distinguish the description from a plain text, a backslash is prefixed as a label. Example: Function replace-char-at() allows the use of \TAB and \NL. Please refer to the function documentation of the specific function.