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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by smhenderson on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:35PM (#28223648)
That's pretty much how I feel as well. People that complain about all the variations in CSV "formats" out there aren't wrong but in practice, for me anyway, most of the files I work with in any given situation come from the same source or a small set of sources and use the same variant.

If/when I get a data source introduced into my workflow that differs from this variant I come up with a routine to normalize it, integrate that into my workflow and move on.

Re:Time to retire the CSV? by vertere on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:53AM (#28232032)
Pretty much the opposite here. Dealing with lots of different formats from different sources, often once off. There's all kinds of crazy things people will call "data" (CSV 'variants' are the tip of the iceberg).