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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by akritid on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:25AM (#43490384)
The practical solution is to generate several CSV files and distribute work at the granularity of files
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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by Eridrus on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:21AM (#43494588)
Sure, now you need to do this statically ahead of time.

It's not unsolvable, but now you have a more complicated system.

A better file format would not have this problem.

The fix is also trivial (escape new lines into \n or similar) would also make the files easier to view with a text editor.

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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by ttyprintk on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:35AM (#43501585)
But in practice, you’ll receive a bag of similar-format CSVs.
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