Who ya calling flabby ? ;-) Actually, CSV is streamlined. Especially if typing by hand. You just put the text you want on the line and bang -- done. You don't have to repeat labels over and over and get the spelling right every time. You don't get a crash because you forgot a closing bracket or curly brace.
CSV has been around a long time, and you're more likely to find converters for it in various applications. It's much easier to write a CSV parser by hand if you have to than JSON (assuming you don't have a handy library). Looking at export options on Excel 2013, I don't see the ability to export to JSON. I suppose the most universal format would be XML, though it's even messier to type than JSON. Have fun, Mark On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 8:42:02 AM UTC-7, Josiah wrote: > > Ciao Tobias & Mat > > I simply don't understand the appeal of CSV. Its a flabby standard. Often > a pain-in-the arse. What's wrong with JSON, its much more robust & with > clear rules? > > Best wishes > Josiah > > On Monday, 24 October 2016 07:51:55 UTC+2, Tobias Beer wrote: >> >> Hi Mat, >> >> I believe, what we eventually want or need is a csv (multi-)tid >> serializer for the core, i.e. another option to export one or more tiddlers >> and then the appropriate import handler. All this preferably allowing to >> configure custom csv formats, e.g. >> >> - delimiter(s) >> - quote symbol(s) — to allow for line-breaks in cells >> - escape symbol(s) — to escape delimiters or quote symbols in cells >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Tobias. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/dd849480-28f5-414c-8d38-aa30f28c8d0d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
