Re:TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data...
by cbsmith on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:01PM
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Like a lot of things, #1 is only partly true, particularly if you have embedded tabs.
The number of times I've had to deal with parsing errors because of embedded carriage returns, commas, tabs, etc., sometimes costing millions of dollars is just... upsetting.
It's like JSON... we say everything can parse it, but really what we've got is some approximation that will come back to haunt us... and once you've done all the work to make sure everything is precise and correct, you'd really have saved time if you'd just used the tools we already had in the first place.
The number of times I've had to deal with parsing errors because of embedded carriage returns, commas, tabs, etc., sometimes costing millions of dollars is just... upsetting.
It's like JSON... we say everything can parse it, but really what we've got is some approximation that will come back to haunt us... and once you've done all the work to make sure everything is precise and correct, you'd really have saved time if you'd just used the tools we already had in the first place.