On 18/12/06, Tony Finch wrote:
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm
Which leads to: http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Std/ctx/ctx.htm
Aren't SQL dumps good enough for some people? Do we have to be
subjected to yet another poorly-thought-out, little-used custom text
format? Hate.
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
>
> The real hate for me, though, with CSV isn't asinine customers, but CSV
> itself.
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm
Tony.
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On 18/12/06, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
The real hate for me, though, with CSV isn't asinine customers, but CSV itself.
People say "a CSV" file as if that were a reference to some well-understood
format. No two things seem to agree on whether a set of values can include
commas, newlines, escaped quo
* Earle Martin [2006-12-18T09:06:34]
> "Foo","Members List Report","3816","Somebody Incorporated23B
> Snibbits Building69 Foonly StreetLondonFO0 8AR+44 20 7123 4567","a
> couple","of other", "fields here","Report Run Time: 05 Dec 2006 at
> 10:53:50","Page -1 of 1","Company Name Snipped
I've been given a CSV file produced by something called "Enterprise
MRM"*. Every line looks something like this:
"Foo","Members List Report","3816","Somebody Incorporated23B
Snibbits Building69 Foonly StreetLondonFO0 8AR+44 20 7123 4567","a
couple","of other", "fields here","Report Run Time:
