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Why do peoole hate .csv files so much? It's a dead simple format that can be read by a ton of software.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I was not a fan until I started using them with programming. That showed why they are used so often and how simple they are to work with. Before then, I just thought it was inconvinient as you had to reformat everything or save in another format.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Also the quoting rules vary, line & row limits, space trimming, how decimals are represented, header or no header…

There's an RFC but I expect more non-conformant files than conformant.

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