This literally solves all the csv and tsv parsing problems.

  • Tabs are hard to distinguish from spaces.
  • Commas can easily mix with each other.
  • @Aerobat
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    21 year ago

    I’ve had to deal with the abomination that is pipe delimited files…

  • skeletorfw
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    21 year ago

    Personally my preferred one is the quick proof of concept that I threw together to teach a student that character delimitation is an arbitrary thing: the emoji-separated variable.

    Of course they immediately proceeded to make 🍆 the delimiter and 💦 the quote, which I should’ve expected.

  • @Aerobat
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    11 year ago

    And call it filename.sdv ?

    • @zephyrOP
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      21 year ago

      SSV - Semi-colon Seperated Values

  • @Restaldt
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    11 year ago

    Ive dealt with pipe separated data, colon separated data, and tilde separated data

    Honestly commas are the most disruptive delimiter to choose