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How about everyone just started following the CSV spec? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 Doesn't allow for tab-delimited
by rgarcia 13y ago
How about everyone just started following the CSV spec? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
Doesn't allow for tab-delimited or any-character-delimited text and handles "Quotes, Commas, and Tab" characters in fields.
- gcb0 13y agoNah. Two split() calls are much easier.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoI love the way that, in the frickin' formal spec, the presence of a header row is ambiguous, so every tool that ever deals with CSV has to ask a human whether or not a header row is present. Great design decision, that.
- ajanuary 13y agoIt's an artifact of budding a standard around what people are already doing.