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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by Dalewyn on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:37PM (#39823774)
I've valued the virtue of CSVs being readable by any text editor known to man, and I've occasionally edited them by hand. The pure simplicity of reading and typing commas trumps any value provided by more esoteric configurations.

As for escaping, that's for the subsequent programmers (which could also be me) to figure out. If it is me, I'll deal with it because it keeps things simple.

Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by groestl on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:10AM (#39825667)
> I've occasionally edited them by hand.

Yeah, usually when the quoting was f'up.