Friends don't let friends export to CSV

Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by Dalewyn on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @01:04AM (#39824421)

Any character within reason can certainly be entered by way of Character Map in Windows or its equivalent in Linux or MacOS, but if you're arguing that then you don't understand the crux of my argument: Convenience is a virtue.

There is value in the delimiter simply being a key on practically any keyboard in existence. Anything that involves something more complicated than just pushing a single button on a keyboard (this includes IMEs) is a non-starter, because convenience is a virtue.

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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by adammarples on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:18AM (#39826914)

The fact that it is a character on the keyboard is exactly the problem, too. Any character a user can easily enter will definitely end up mixed into your data somewhere.

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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by deathanatos on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:50PM (#39830037)

> Anything that involves something more complicated than just pushing a single button on a keyboard (this includes IMEs)

My point is that this is merely a more stringent argument; it's now "on a keyboard, and cannot involve dead keys, etc." … which now excludes classic CSV, too, which requires two keys to enter a double quote. (Shift+')

Again, it does require more keys, and it is certainly not convenient, but n keys to me is still n keys. The real question is why one isn't using a proper tool to enter the data, and is instead encoding it by hand, which, again, even for a classic CSV, is basically something I've never done. (… because why would one?)

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