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Yes, it would be valid CSV. I suppose my point is that naive attempts to roll-your-own CSV parsers tend to fail on the points I listed. Hopefully Q does not do
by codeulike 8y ago
Yes, it would be valid CSV. I suppose my point is that naive attempts to roll-your-own CSV parsers tend to fail on the points I listed. Hopefully Q does not do that.
- Dylan16807 8y agoThey do? Commas and quotes are the two basic features of CSV, so it seems very strange to forget to implement half.
- 83457 8y agoThere is a lot of inconsistency out there. I have seen csv files saved in Excel not be import-able by Access because the latter doesn't handle breaks in fields correctly. I've seen csvs saved from various systems such as sql mngmnt studio grid view and wufoo exports not generate csv correctly. There are many lazy attempts at csv generators out there that just throw breaks between records and commas between fields and call it a day.
- 83457 8y agoAnd even if they do wrap all fields in double quotes it is very common to forget to escape double quotes in fields, then it depends on the parser as to whether it can determine the proper structure of the record.
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