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by afiori 2y ago
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I am pretty sure you shifted the meaning, the decimal separator is part of the atomic data it does not need a control character.
You would use 1F instead of the comma/semicolon/tab and 1E to split lines (record means line just like in SQL).
You could then use 1D to store multiple CSV tables in a single file.
- pasc1878 2y agoYes but then the text is not human readable or editable in a plain text editor. This would confuse most users of csvs they are not programmers they at most use text editors and Excel.
- afiori 2y agoI am not proposing to do this, but if you were to use ascii separators you would do it this way