Mike Kerner wrote:
For everyone trying to get back up to speed on CSV, here's the closest thing to a "Standard", RFC 4180: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
Unfortunately the "format" was around for so long before that RFC, and so many big companies have ignored the RFC since, that it doesn't reflect the staggeringly rich variety of escapes and quoting conventions found in real-world data.
Doesn't hurt to make sure whatever we come up with handles the spec, but the spec doesn't handle a lot of what the world calls "CSV".
(And don't even get me started about files delimited by things other than commas that identify themselves by the acronym for "Comma-Separated Values").
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