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Right, the author skipped right over human-readable TSV files which play nicely with sed/awk/grep/sort pipelines, and are supported by all CSV parsers and sprea
by memtet 2y ago
Right, the author skipped right over human-readable TSV files which play nicely with sed/awk/grep/sort pipelines, and are supported by all CSV parsers and spreadsheet software.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoTSV is also my go-to when mucking around on the command line. Perfect for noodling with data before you have to put together an Excel file to show to management.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoThe problem is that people (non-technical mostly), put tabs in fields, and then you have all the problems that the article notes.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoI personally find that this happens (a lot) less often than with commas or quote characters.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoThat's fair, but it only takes one to mess up the rest of the file.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoAgreed, that's why it's not good for production processes.