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TSV solve a lot of the pain

• cbsmith 5y ago
  ...or, you know, you could use the ASCII characters specifically defined for separating records and units. ;-)
  • derefr 5y ago
    If only I could type them on my keyboard. (I think this is a big part of why CSV is the way it is — people want to be able to hand-edit it, or at least hand-produce small test datasets to test the systems on the other end.)
    • cbsmith 5y ago
      The funny thing is you can type any character on a keyboard. It's the same weird disconnect about "text file formats are human-readable". Either way you need a tool that can render & read the format in question. It does't much matter what format you actually store the data in, because you don't read & write the bites directly.
• hermitcrab 5y ago
  As long as you don't need to store tabs or carriage returns in your data. ;0)