Separators are special operative characters that cannot be used in a batch file for anything other than operative purposes.
The following is used as the line separator:
A standard digraph for the end of a line CR+LF (hexadecimally 0D0A)
The following can be used as the attribute separator (i.e. of the individual items in a data record):
standard tabulator (hexadecimally 09)
the pipe character (hexadecimally 7C)
Reciprocal combination of attribute separators is not permitted. If the first above mentioned separator is not found, the second separator is searched, etc.
There is no attribute separator at the end of a data record/line; only the line separator appears there.
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