CSV is actually a nice format if it weren't for literal newlines being allowed INSIDE values. That alone makes it much harder to parse correctly with simple cod

CSV is actually a nice format if it weren't for literal newlines being allowed INSIDE values. That alone makes it much harder to parse correctly with simple code because you can't count on ASCII mode readline()-like functions to fetch 1 record in entirety. Considering it also separates records with newlines, they really should have replaced newlines with "\n" and require escaping "\" with "\\".