Re:Apache Arrow 3.0
by imtringued on Thursday February 04, 2021 @07:32AM
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The worst part about CSV is that it appears to be so simple that many people don't even try to understand how complicated it is and just roll their own broken dialect instead of just using a library. There is also no standardized encoding. Delimiters have to be negotiated out of band and people love getting them wrong.
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Mostly agree, but RFC-4180 does specify delimiters. I've used pipe-delimited files for years to ensure explicitly-defined conformity, but recently due to the plethora of libraries have been thinking that CSV may be simpler.