//The primary delimiter used in CSV files
    static final String DELIM = "~";

    //The secondary delimiter, used to separate multi-valued attributes
    static final String DELIM_TWO = "`";

    public static final String ESCAPE = "^";
    public static final String ESCAPE_ENCODING = ESCAPE + "car;";
    public static final String DELIM_ONE_ENCODING = ESCAPE + "til;";
    public static final String DELIM_TWO_ENCODING = ESCAPE + "baq;";

    /**
     * Encodes strings so that data does not contain any delimiter characters
     *
     * @param s
     * @return
     */
    public static String encodeString(String s) {
        s = val(s);

        if (!findDelimCharacters(s)) {
            return s;
        }
        /*
         * The order that the characters are encoded is important.  If you have the string:
         * "a~^b" and you encoded DELIM first, then you would have "a^til;^b" and then the two
         * carets in that string would get encoded which would be incorrect
         */
        return s.replace(ESCAPE, ESCAPE_ENCODING).
                 replace(DELIM_TWO, DELIM_TWO_ENCODING).
                 replace(DELIM, DELIM_ONE_ENCODING);
    }