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Agreed, much easier to work with, especially if you can guarantee no embedded tabs or newlines. Otherwise you end up with backslash escaping, but that's still u
by adzm 2y ago
Agreed, much easier to work with, especially if you can guarantee no embedded tabs or newlines. Otherwise you end up with backslash escaping, but that's still usually easier than quotes.
- recursive 2y agoIt's not really easier than CSV if you can guarantee no commas or newlines.
- jefftk 2y agoMuch easier to require fields not have tabs than not have commas, though.
- solidsnack9000 2y agoParsing escapes is easier than parsing quoted text with field and record separators embedded in it. Every literal newline or literal tab is a separator. One can jump to the thousandth record, for example, just by skipping lines, without looking into the contents.