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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CSV isn't nightmarish, it is just a table structure in text form. You can open it with any text editor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The problem is that it's not really a standard. It's reinvented ad-hoc by whomever programs it today.

Should there be any whitespace after the comma? Do you want to use pipes or some other character instead of commas (ASCII 0x1E is sitting over there for exactly this purpose, but it's been ignored for decades)? How do you handle escaping your separator char inside the dataset? Are you [CR] or [LF} or [CR] [LF]? None of these questions have a set answer. Even JSON has more specification than this.