Example
The sexp
(this "Canonical S-expression" has 5 atoms)becomes the csexp
(4:this22:Canonical S-expression3:has1:55:atoms)Note that no quotation marks are required to escape the space character internal to the atom "Canonical S-expression", because the length prefix clearly points to the end of the atom. Note also that there is no whitespace separating an atom from the next element in the list.
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