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by Kon-Peki
688 days ago
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CSV comes from a world in which the producer and consumer know each other; if there are problems they talk to each other and work it out. There is still plenty of this kind of data exchange happening, and CSV is perfectly fine for it. If I'm consuming data produced by some giant tech company or mega bank or whatever, there is no chance I'll be able to get them to fix some issue I have processing it. From these kind of folks, I'd like something other than CSV. |
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Only once have I seen a bad .csv from a "big" company--big fish in a small pond type big. We were looking to get data out, hey, great, .csv is a valid export format. I'm not sure exactly what was in that file but it appeared to be the printout with some field info attached to each field. (Put this at that location on the paper etc, one field per line.) Every output format it has is in some scenario bugged.