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by james_smith_007 2283 days ago
It's not so. Both CSV (despite of its name) and DSV are able to use an arbitrary character as a delimiter. The real difference between them is the way to escape the delimiter (and to escape the escaper itself). DSV use C-like syntax: \, will be treated as literal comma, \\ will be treated as literal backslash. CSV use quotation marks for this purpose, and in a completely different way.