[Xapian-discuss] multiple value with the same number?

Peter Karman peter at peknet.com
Fri Jul 9 18:37:18 BST 2010


Per Jessen wrote on 07/09/2010 11:59 AM:
> Peter Karman wrote:


>> swish_xapian stores multi-value strings delimited with ASCII character
>> \003.
>>
> 
> Any particular reason for using \003 other than it is not 0 and highly
> unlikely to turn up in text?
> 

for those reasons, and \003 is ETX (end of text), which seemed at the
time to be the control character most like what I wanted the byte to convey.



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