Friends don't let friends export to CSV

Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by bruce511 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:07AM (#39825241)

Well you might be wrong, but EDI in general and HL7 specifically allow 3 levels of "fields in fields in field".

As long as your parser copes, and as long as you have appropriate structures to import into, its no big deal.

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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by iainmerrick on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:52AM (#39825547)

So now when I'm exporting data I need to know what nesting level it's going to live at so I can generate the correct separators?

I really think that might be the worst idea I've heard for a while!

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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by bruce511 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:52AM (#39852329)

It's not toooo bad :) But it's very much a "thing" in the real word. It's called EDI, and it's been around for a long time.

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