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I did some ETL work that used the ASCII delimiter characters. It was very enjoyable. I didn't have to worry about escaping or parsing escaped strings. The contr

I did some ETL work that used the ASCII delimiter characters. It was very enjoyable. I didn't have to worry about escaping or parsing escaped strings. The control codes were guaranteed to be illegal in input. It was refreshing.

theamk 2y ago
Could you do the same with TSV? A lot of datasets can either prohibit tabs in data, or convert it to spaces in early ingestion.
- EvanAnderson 2y ago
  TSV is a joy compared to CSV, for sure. CLI tools that output TSV are what immediately spring to mind.
  - bandie91 2y ago
    shameless plug: https://repo.or.cz/hband-tools.git/blob/HEAD:/tabdata/README.md https://repo.or.cz/hband-tools.git/blob/HEAD:/tabdata/README...
- red_admiral 2y ago
  Yes, and as long as you remember to turn off the "TAB produces 4 spaces" thing in your editor (grumble makefiles grumble) it's really nice to work with.