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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by vertere on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @03:26AM (#24695448)
I sure don't want to have to deal with people putting `="01"` in CSV files.
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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by altacc on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:07AM (#24695636)
We have multiple legacy systems where I work, communicating via batch csv files, some of which are authored & curated by staff in Excel. I can confirm that doing this would be a very bad thing indeed and make our systems grind to a halt.
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