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Re:Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat by dnautics on Monday December 29, 2014 @03:54PM (#8811714)
I cringed too, but then I realized this is probably the best way to start out. It's only a 'problem' because it's a bit more glue code (but less 'figuring things out' time).

The only truly cringey part is not knowing about CSV!

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Re:Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat by stefs on Monday December 29, 2014 @07:49PM (#8812721)
that said, CSV is not without its own problems - i mean, it's not well defined. if you're down to automate a bunch of windows programs by moving around the cursor programatically and faking keyboard events, using excel over ODBC is far from cringey.
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