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by snthpy 691 days ago
I've recently learned about them and an trying to revive usage - .asv and .usv files.

The .usv separators make things easier to read at the expense of a bit more space.

Main point for me making the parsing so much simpler.

Who writes .csv files by hand anyway?

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Editing csv by hand is something I’ve seen a lot for internal-only software where every user is a super-power user who need to move small but bulk amounts of data and sometimes make small edits for formatting.

Easiest example is geo, I need 20 states listed as US-CO, US-CA, etc but one tool exported as US CO.