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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by arethuza on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:31AM (#23190943)
A good one I saw recently was a text file that, even though it had a .csv file extension was actually using another character as a delimiter (in this case colons) but as it contained large amounts of textual data actually had a enough commas to be parsed as a CSV file.

VS Code and a suitable extension handled this rather better than Excel.

Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by tigerstripe on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:56AM (#23193665)
Sounds like CSV in this case stood for Colon Separate Data
Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by fomine3 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:24AM (#23210004)
Further generalization: Character Separated Values