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The snarky question I have is, how many of them will become confused with dates?
by JakeStone 6y ago
The snarky question I have is, how many of them will become confused with dates?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoA snarky follow-up question I have is, will the standard way to work around date confusion be to have all values in CSV wrapped in { ... }, or some other delimiter, to have Excel automatically convert it into structured objects which presumably won't be doing date autoguessing?
- tinus_hn 6y agoWill the way to fix CSV be to make small adjustments or will it be to replace it with something that isn’t about the worst format ever created?
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoWhy is CSV the worst format?
- tinus_hn 6y agoThe stupidest part is where it is localized so in some parts of the world the comma is the decimal separator, yet it also is the field separator. So then there’s a different field separator but there is no way to reliably detect that. CSV is full of stupid things like that. Full of magic, underspecified hacks and useless nonfeatures.