I remember at my last job, mentioning something about saving a Google Sheet in CSV format, and my boss immediately said "I'm morally opposed to CSV." He then t

I remember at my last job, mentioning something about saving a Google Sheet in CSV format, and my boss immediately said "I'm morally opposed to CSV." He then told me about TSV, and since then I've come to accept it as a superior format. With the kind of data I dealt with at my job, we never encountered tabs within a column, but commas within columns were very common, so TSV was perfect for us. A lot of what I was doing was ad-hoc processing of various sheets (nothing that was really production-grade), so a lot of time I'd just write code to read in a file and split each line on \t, and that was good enough. And maybe I'd throw out any lines that began with #, but that was about it for processing. Actually, we did have a TSV parser in our codebase, but my boss told me that it has problems and he never liked it and that I should just roll my own inline with my code.