To put it short - size reduction. sometimes very significant.
But anyway, delimiter with possibility to escape it is much better solution then delimiter per field and relatively often, then fixed length.
Quote Originally Posted by lucasward View Post
One thing I would also like to point out is that delimiters are set for an entire file. Meaning, that there is one setter for a delimiter that is used. Attempting to set a delimiter per field would require significantly more configuration than there is currently, for very little value. At a minimum, if this feature is needed, it would need to be a separate tokenizer all together, so that the more common use case would be easier to configure. However, with that being said, I still don't understand what setting a delimiter per field would add that couldn't more easily be accommodated by using fixed-length formatting.