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> CSV is a poorly defined format. It doesn't have a standard. Wrong: CSV is standardized in RFC 4180: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 https://tools.ietf
by wolfgke 10y ago
> CSV is a poorly defined format. It doesn't have a standard.
Wrong: CSV is standardized in RFC 4180:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
- chinpokomon 10y agoEx post facto. It's been a "standard" long before the RFC, so there are many CSV documents which need to be read but don't confirm to the RFC spec. You should create a CSV writer that conforms, but your reader needs to support much more. Then if you save back to the RFC spec, the document might break other downstream readers which were written long ago and which don't follow the new RFC spec. It's an imperfect file format.