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I had to LOL a bit about this. I built a career that lasted over 30 years writing software that deciphered clients' attempts to produce sales data files in CSV format.

Many times they just couldn't seem to find the comma. Other times there were commas in the item description (unescaped). My favourite though was when files were edited collaboratively using a Mac, Windows and Linux machines - multiple line-end types FTW! Like I said, a long and somewhat inglorious career..



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