Re:Time to retire the CSV?
by wernercd on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:02PM
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obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/
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Re:Time to retire the CSV?
by sicariusnoctis on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:56PM
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This is true. The best way would be if everyone generated CSV files that were compatible with on one or two already existing CSV formats. (e.g. no-quote-plain-old-csv or quotes-forced-csv.) Hopefully, it would be easy to distinguish between the two in some well-defined manner. Maybe call it .csvs (CSV standardized). Or just introduce new extensions like .csvq ("CSV quoted").
Note the difference is that I am suggesting reducing the number of standards in-use by using only one already existing CSV format. :)