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

For fast escaping I use stuff like this: say you want to concatinate str1, str2 and str3 what I do is:

delimitedStr=str1.Replace("@","@a").Replace("|","@p")+"|"+str2.Replace("@","@a").Replace("|","@p")+"|"+str3.Replace("@","@a").Replace("|","@p");

then to retrieve original use:

splitStr=delimitedStr.Split("|".ToCharArray());
str1=splitStr[0].Replace("@p","|").Replace("@a","@");
str2=splitStr[1].Replace("@p","|").Replace("@a","@");
str3=splitStr[2].Replace("@p","|").Replace("@a","@");

note: the order of the replace is important

its unbreakable and easy to implement