Re:Time to retire the CSV?
by hermitcrab on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:14PM
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It seems quite common in some European countries to use semi-colons as the delimiter instead of commas (because they use commas as the decimal separator?), adding a new level of fun to parsing. In Easy Data Transform we count the number of commas, semi-colons, tabs in the file to make an educated guess as the delimiter (which the user can override).
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Semicolon-separated "CSV" is a quirk of Microsoft Excel, which they have never fixed. I figure Microsoft would prefer that people use XLS instead of CSV.