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Re:Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data? by hermitcrab on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:25PM (#31254389)
if you add an extra comma in a CSV (outside of quoting) then the rest of the cells in that row are off by 1. Which is not good obviously. But if you add an extra quote, then the entire rest of the file is garbage.
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