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> The developers should understand that these fields are read either by
> humans or by programs that use scanf() and friends. Therefore, we should
> use white-space for delimiters and stay away from ":,=$&(#@*", etc.

Using whitespace as a delimiter won't work because of strings.
I'd rather see a colon, or quoted strings, or some other method.

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