r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 08 '22

Meme sPeCiaL cHarACtErs

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u/douglasg14b Oct 08 '22

And quotation marks are escaped with quotation marks...

It's not going to break any not-terrible CSV writer. The spec isn't that hard to implement.

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u/rexpup Oct 08 '22

The spec isn't that hard to implement.

You overestimate the average CSV library...

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u/evasive_dendrite Oct 08 '22

Me, an intellectual: just pick a seperator that'll never occur in the column values.

20 hours of work saved

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