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slavik81 on Sept 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: ASCII and Unicode quotation marks

Sadly, eventually someone will want to enter one document as a field in another document and then you end up needing escaping anyways. Using a rare symbol for the delimiter would still be nice for typing documents by hand, but it would have to be available on modern keyboards to be convenient.

coldtea on Sept 14, 2017 [–]

>Sadly, eventually someone will want to enter one document as a field in another document and then you end up needing escaping anyways.

Yes, but CSV files are record collections, they are not in 99% of cases recursive like that.

If a column contains escaped secondary documents, there's something wrong.

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