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Your data must be very sparse or include a lot of escape chars for that. I've seen a lot of CSV where everything is quoted, meaning that the cell separator is
by Pxtl 5y ago
Your data must be very sparse or include a lot of escape chars for that.
I've seen a lot of CSV where everything is quoted, meaning that the cell separator is effectively
","
which is only one character less than
<td>
and still beats the pants off of JSON or XML. imho, it would be a good compromise, in that there's already partial tooling and GUI support.
- prepend 5y agoBut usually it will be 1 character vs 4. So that adds a lot of space that doesn’t add much value. It’s also harder to read.
- Pxtl 5y agoI would say invisible control characters would be even harder to read.
- hermitcrab 5y agoUS and RS characters are visible in some editors, e.g. Notepad++.