[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.6 Realtime Database must use ', ' not '|' in appdata field?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:52:02PM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > The ',' used inside of a database field is not a real problem for the
> > database once it's there, the issue arises during import/export
> > operations to and from the database.  This has a great potential to
> > screw up the database, one bad csv import and all hell breaks loose.
> 
> Yes, well, that hasn't changed.  You could screw up the import before, and
> you can still screw it up.  

Actually, no, that's a handwave.  "," is a fairly common character in
live data fields in databases.  "|", on the other hand, is not; it's an
ASCII character, but it's not an English character.

Additionally, *because* commas are live data, we've gone to "commas and
quotes", of which I gather there are something like 17 different
implementations and sets of semantics.  So, no, comma is *never* a good
technical delimiter.  Ever.  Really.  We're not just making it up.

Cheers,
-- jra
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