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What problem is solved, exactly? How do you parse the messy CSV file you've been handed, in order to convert it to TSV?
by dmd 7y ago
What problem is solved, exactly? How do you parse the messy CSV file you've been handed, in order to convert it to TSV?
- manor 7y agoMy point is simply that TSVs are just as straightforward as CSVs but suffer none of the issues. So why are we not making TSVs to begin with?
- dmd 7y agoNobody (or very few people) processing CSVs is doing it because they like them. You do it because that's how someone else created the data - someone you don't have any control over, like a government agency, financial institution, piece of obscure software, whatever.