A love letter to the CSV format

Re:A love letter to the CSV format by flanked-evergl on Thursday March 27, 2025 @03:48AM (#43491267)

In practice, I have never ever received CSV to process that complied with RFC 4180, and in most cases it was completely incoherent and needed incredibly special handling to handle all the various problems like lack of escaping.

SAP has been by far the worst. I never managed to get data out of it that were not completely garbage and needed hand crafted parsers.

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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by consp on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:13AM (#43491376)

SAP only has to be SAP and MS Excel compatible. The rest is not needed so in their eyes it is probably to spec.

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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by flanked-evergl on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:09AM (#43491952)

European quality™.

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