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0 pointscoldtea8y ago0 comments

There is actually an ASCII character that doesn't appear in strings, and is meant to be used as such a separator. Actually two of them, record (30) and unit separator (31).

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slavik818y ago· 1 in thread

Sadly, eventually someone will want to enter one document as a field in another document and then you end up needing escaping anyways. Using a rare symbol for the delimiter would still be nice for typing documents by hand, but it would have to be available on modern keyboards to be convenient.

coldteaOP8y ago

>Sadly, eventually someone will want to enter one document as a field in another document and then you end up needing escaping anyways.

Yes, but CSV files are record collections, they are not in 99% of cases recursive like that.

If a column contains escaped secondary documents, there's something wrong.

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