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0 pointszepolen1y ago0 comments

That's because anyone can easily make a tab character with their keyboard. No one ever remembers the key combination for those special ascii characters.

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kstrauser1y ago

If it became popular, all common editors would have an easy way to type them.

cylinder7141y ago

This encapsulates my problem with CSVs:

- If I send someone a spreadsheet, they'll open it with a spreadsheet application; Excel, LibreOffice, whatever.

- If I send someone a CSV file, they'll want to open it with a text editor.

Ack, no! Open it with a spreadsheet app, or load it into SQLite, or, best of all, open it with VisiData or some kind of editor designed for tabular data.

https://www.visidata.org/

hobs1y ago

Actually no - spreadsheets classically choose their own way to interpret CSVs, that's the classic way to get your client to continue to send you support requests.

There's a reason so many tools export to xls instead of csv.

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crazygringo1y ago

And if there were an easy way to type them, then people would start using them in strings.

And then they'd have to be escaped.

And we'd be back where we started.

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