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by nicostouch 3447 days ago
Let's not forget Japan Post's CSV for all the Japanese Address data that contains some lines that are line-wrapped, that is, one record spans two or more lines in the CSV file. A line-wrapped CSV... I just can't even.
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That's why ASCII was designed with record and field separators. Unfortunately, it's not used (de facto) for delimited files.