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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by JauntyHatAngle on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:33AM (#23190952)
I don't think your first line is at all true.

Modifying Csvs with notepad is rife. I'd wager more than using any one particular code editor.

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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by arethuza on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:38AM (#23190989)
Or they use Excel, which can introduce its own entertaining errors.

A few years back while working on something that unavoidably used large quantities of CSV data we would sternly warn people not to use Excel, but people still did it ("But I just looked at it!").

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