cut command on centos

[Jerry Geis <geisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do I make the delimiter for cut be a single character with hex value 1e?

I tried in a script file:

DELIMITER='\x1e'
DD=`echo $DATA | cut -f 1 --delimiter $DELIMITER`

and it tells me:
cut: the delimiter must be a single character

Jerry

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