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  • Cipher@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)

    • T0RB1T@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Isn’t a tab delimeted spreadsheet normally called a TSV, as in “Tab-Separated Values”?

      Isn’t CSV literally Comma-Separated Values?

      Sorry, pedantry doesn’t die.

      • Cipher@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        A little bit yes, a little bit no

        Tab delimited csv are sometimes called tsv, but just as often you’ll see csv (tab delimited) as a file type option

        See the wiki section on standardization for details.

        Csv currently includes the following delimiters:

        Comma, space, tab, pipe, or semicolon

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Now that you point it out, I remember being able to set delimiters on exports. It’s just been ages since I was generating them.