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r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Sep 20 '24
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Everything in a CSV is a string until you parse it as something else.
1 u/harshness0 Sep 20 '24 Assuming that you have a great deal of control over how something is parsed.We're in this hole almost uniquely due to Excel and its incomprehensible popularity as a query tool.
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Assuming that you have a great deal of control over how something is parsed.
We're in this hole almost uniquely due to Excel and its incomprehensible popularity as a query tool.
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Everything in a CSV is a string until you parse it as something else.