On 8/1/2015 10:25 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: >> P.S. As Simon noted, it seems to be defined here: >> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180> > >> I was probably referring to the first sentence of chapter 2: "While there >> are various specifications and implementations for the CSV format" > > OK for that document existing and all, but just a quotes: > > "Each field _may or may not_ be enclosed in double quotes" > > So if I want to represent "" I can use either "" or """""".
False. You have conveniently neglected to mention the very next sentence in the document: "If fields are not enclosed with double quotes, then double quotes may not appear inside the fields." Thus, "" is unambiguously an empty string, and """""" is unambiguously a string consisting of two double quotes. There are many real problems with CSV - no need to make up imaginary ones. -- Igor Tandetnik
