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So if you look carefully at the ASCII code, there are some interesting characters down in the low area. Like RS, GS, FS. If we had used those in CSV, there woul
by wglb 8y ago
So if you look carefully at the ASCII code, there are some interesting characters down in the low area. Like RS, GS, FS. If we had used those in CSV, there wouldn't be all this nonsense about having to add quotes or not.
Similarly, with leading spaces to delimit fields--what could possibly go wrong?
Its ASCII, folks.
- ISO-morphism 8y agoTotally unsubstantiated, but my opinion on why we use commas instead of the built in record/field seperator characters is simple: the special ASCII characters don't have a cononical printed representation and they don't have keys on a keyboard to make them easy to type. Therefore they're neither human readable nor human writable, and the human interface is really what matters with a plain text serialization format. Edit: spelling
- zapzupnz 8y agoIndeed. Otherwise we could just use a binary representation.