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> If we used 31 as a field delimiter and 30 instead of newlines, we solve every single edge case from above. Why? Because these are non-printing characters that should never appear in a text-stream data set.

I have in fact seen CSV files used as an interchange format for things that include non-plaintext fields. And I've seen nested CSV files.



LOL nested CSVs are a new one to me. What was it used for?




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