Re: A proposal for standardizing TSV files

2016-11-04 Thread Piotr Mitros
d add overhead for this type of work, rather than reducing it, and would only provide benefit at the stage of the final results. Piotr On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Eike Rathke wrote: > Hi Piotr, > > On Thursday, 2016-11-03 08:08:23 -0400, Piotr Mitros wrote: > > > I do a f

A proposal for standardizing TSV files

2016-11-03 Thread Piotr Mitros
Hello, I do a fair bit of work where I move data between LibreOffice, MySQL, Vertica, Google Docs, Hadoop, Python, and a few other systems. The formatting of TSV files is ad-hoc. Each system has little differences in how strings are escaped, and similar. In addition, there is no way to preserve me