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Why not use tab-separated values, you get improved readability and less quoting needed, or am I missing something?
by ripperdoc 8y ago
Why not use tab-separated values, you get improved readability and less quoting needed, or am I missing something?
- geraldbauer 8y agoSee the Awesome CSV page, for the discussion about tabs vs commas - https://github.com/csv11/awesome-csv#tab https://github.com/csv11/awesome-csv#tab Yes, ideally the tab is perfect (no escape rules needed, etc). In practice you cannot tell if you're human if a tab is a space or a space is a tab and than you will get into trouble reading / writing your data etc. Anyways, both are great and needed and use tab2csv or csv2tab to convert or pipe (when using command line tools) :-)
- peapicker 8y agoThe perfect character is ASCII (& Unicode) 0x1E (30) - "Record Separator" -- except that no modern keyboard can naturally type it, the ones that could are long since gone.