CLN is a minimal notation for storing literals (strings and numbers) in a compact format designed to increase the speed of .

Everything is in one line, data is separated with commas (though it can be easily changed). Both the sender and the receiver should know the layout beforehand, so if the layout was string - string - float - string - signed int32 - double then the encoded version would look like this: string1,str2,7.3,hello\, "world"!,2112,472189894.9104704282