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Unpopular opinion: Semi-colon should be the default delimiter instead of comma or tab (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 2 years ago by zephyr to c/unpopularopinion

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This literally solves all the csv and tsv parsing problems.

Tabs are hard to distinguish from spaces.
Commas can easily mix with each other.

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[–] Aerobat 2 points 2 years ago

I've had to deal with the abomination that is pipe delimited files...

[–] skeletorfw 2 points 2 years ago

Personally my preferred one is the quick proof of concept that I threw together to teach a student that character delimitation is an arbitrary thing: the emoji-separated variable.

Of course they immediately proceeded to make 🍆 the delimiter and 💦 the quote, which I should've expected.

[–] Aerobat 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And call it filename.sdv ?

[–] zephyr 2 points 2 years ago

SSV - Semi-colon Seperated Values

[–] Restaldt 1 points 2 years ago

Ive dealt with pipe separated data, colon separated data, and tilde separated data

Honestly commas are the most disruptive delimiter to choose