As soon as you encounter any CSVs where field values may contain double quotes, commas, or newlines, you need tooling to work with CSV as well.

(TSV FTW)

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IAmBroom 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

TSV is superior to CSVs, and it still angers me that Excel doesn't offer it as a standard input option, but your examples are fairly easily handled by eye in a text file.

Tools definitely make it faster and more reliable.

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spicybbq 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One of my first tasks as a junior dev was replacing an incorrect/incomplete "roll your own" CSV parsing regex (which broke in production) with a library.

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euroderf 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

ASCII FS GS RS US ... just make decent font entries for them.

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jstanley 3 days ago | parent [-]

And keys on the keyboard.

	▲	euroderf 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes! But nobody ever came up with decent font entries that would look snappy on keys. Not even IBM (or Data General or Burroughs or whoever) I guess.