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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by LegionMammal978 on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:21AM (#42100955)
Out of curiosity, in which general circumstances do you tend to see this sort of data? A lot of the support I see for ASV/USV/whatever comes from the idea that this is negligibly rare, which has always sounded to me like a dangerous assumption for a general-purpose format.
Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text by zabzonk on Sunday November 10, 2024 @12:14PM (#42101287)
Some (many?) years ago i wrote a FOSS tool for messing with CSV called CSVfix. People used to mail me CSV files and ask how to parse them. Also, in my general consulting/contracting work I came across all sorts of weird stuff, a lot of it machine-generated.