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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

Any one variant is simple. The combination of all of them is impossible to parse reliably.
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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