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Re:Working with CSV files on shell/terminal by wenc on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:51PM (#36509138)
I haven’t worked out if the BNF is unambiguous (RFC 4180) but if you have a CSV in a cell you would escape any ambiguous characters.

An unescaped cell within a CSV will break most CSV parsers in the world even with recursion handling.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180

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