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CSV generation and parsing is inconsistent based on tooling (see inevitable space/comma/quote problems, for example), while JSON has a strict enough spec that y
by crooked-v 6y ago
CSV generation and parsing is inconsistent based on tooling (see inevitable space/comma/quote problems, for example), while JSON has a strict enough spec that you can unambiguously use it in the same way for CSV-like data as long as nobody needs to literally edit it directly in Excel.
- ciupicri 6y agoCSV has a specification too - RFC 4180, "Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files" [1] [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#section-2 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#section-2