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XSV is a tool for exploring and manipulating X-separated value files (CSV, TSV, …), which is why I mentioned it in reply to a comment which talks about the expl
by masklinn 4y ago
XSV is a tool for exploring and manipulating X-separated value files (CSV, TSV, …), which is why I mentioned it in reply to a comment which talks about the exploration of CSV files, and furthermore specifically mentions that
> parsing csv can get tricky
- version_five 4y ago> tricky Yes I'd say awk is unsuitable for csv files that can contain text fields with arbitrary text, that includes commas, newlines, quotes etc. It gets hackier and becomes the wrong tool as the number of edge cases to handle increases.
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