Least used delimiter character in normal text < ASCII 128

Question

For coding reasons which would horrify you (I\'m too embarrassed to say), I need to store a number of text items in a single string.

I will delimit them using a char

Answer 1

Can you use a pipe symbol? That's usually the next most common delimiter after comma or tab delimited strings. It's unlikely most text would contain a pipe, and ord('|') returns 124 for me, so that seems to fit your requirements.