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>I don't expect a CSV to be a plain text file, unless all the data it's encoding is plain text. Really? So you might write a floating point value to a "CSV" fi
by rhapsodic 9y ago
>I don't expect a CSV to be a plain text file, unless all the data it's encoding is plain text.
Really? So you might write a floating point value to a "CSV" file by writing the IEEE 754 bit pattern for that value? And you would call that a valid CSV file, and would expect generic CSV parsers to properly decode that value?
That's a new one on me. I have always been under the impression that CSV files are plain text. Perhaps you should edit the Wikipedia page so it doesn't continue to give unsuspecting people the wrong information:
In computing, a comma-separated values (CSV) file is a
delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values
(many implementations of CSV import/export tools allow
other separators to be used). It stores tabular data
(numbers and text) in plain text. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values