I believe replacing newlines with ';' characters is not profitable; it does not reduce the byte-count of the output, and it impairs the ease of reading the output.
Maybe on MS-DOS based systems (where the end-of-line marker is two bytes "\r\n") it would be useful, but that is an edge-case.
I believe replacing newlines with ';' characters is not profitable; it does not reduce the byte-count of the output, and it impairs the ease of reading the output.
Maybe on MS-DOS based systems (where the end-of-line marker is two bytes "\r\n") it would be useful, but that is an edge-case.