title: What's the best separator/delimiter character(s) for a plaintext db file?
body: <p>What's the best separator/delimiter character(s) for a plaintext db file?</p>
  
  <p>I considered using <code>|</code>, <code>,</code>, <code>&lt;TAB&gt;</code>, <code>;</code>, etc. But they all seem to be possible to break when the nearby entries have special enough characters. </p>
  
  <p>So, the experienced database users, what delimiter character(s) do you suggest to use?</p>