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I recall ESR's book about Unix conventions and culture mentioned something I think he called stanza-based. A file format where each line is a value and records
by mongol 5y ago
I recall ESR's book about Unix conventions and culture mentioned something I think he called stanza-based. A file format where each line is a value and records separated by empty lines. Don't think Office tools can work with that though, except as regular text files.
- dredmorbius 5y agoAwk will eat that for breakfast no problem. The usual problem is when you discover that what you thought was a value is in fact a record of its own, with internal structure. The problem isn't the CSV. The problem is that data parsing is actually a Hard Problem. The author of TFA is ... naive and misguided.