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Often it'll be compatibility with some upstream legacy system which exposes data as CSV or tab delimited, and outputs data like this: First,Middle,Last A
by jameshart 9y ago
Often it'll be compatibility with some upstream legacy system which exposes data as CSV or tab delimited, and outputs data like this:
First,Middle,Last
Alice,Q,Foo
Bob,NULL,Bar
In a world like that, some code got written in the wrong tier to output
value.toUpper() == "NULL" ? "" : value
and you wind up with a web form that can't roundtrip a name that contains the word 'null'.