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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by roenxi on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:23AM (#23191298)
You're almost certainly describing a file format that already exists and that nobody uses because it is not human-interactable.

Anyone can edit a csv. I often have. An important feature.

The only real stumper in the CSV format is why they didn't use \ as the escape in strings like everyone else. Probably some good reason.

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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by eyelidlessness on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:32AM (#23192606)
While backslash escaping is very common, double-quote (or double-special-anything) is fairly common as well. I use it all the time in SQL.
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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by throwaway_pdp09 on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:07AM (#23191707)
Interesting. I don't think I have ever hand edited a CSV (unless you mean created from scratch, well then, perhaps).

OTOH the ability to just look at it... that I've found very valuable and agree there.

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