2. SEPARATORS

Notice that special characters of type <carriage returns>,<line_feeds>, <blanks>, <tabs> are allowed between numbers in any desired combination.
Consider the data in the previous page:

      1 1 43   1 3 17   1 5 0   1 2 11   ...

can also be written as:

      1 1 43
      1 3 17
      1 5 0
      1 2 11
      ...

It is also allowed to use a comma <,> as a separator between numbers, as well as a combination of a comma and the other separators. Thus, the same data may be encoded by:

      1,1,43   1,3,17   1,5,0   1,2,11   ...

or

      1,1,43
      1,3,17
      1,5,0
      1,2,11
      ...

In addition comments can be interspersed anywhere by enclosing them in single quotes <'>. For instance the exact data as in the previous examples may look like:

      1,1,43
      1,3,17
      1,5,0
      'This is a true coincidence between events 1,3 and 1,5'
      1,2,11
      ...

Note that lines of comments should start and end with single quotes <'> delimiters. No continuation lines are allowed.

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