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		beardyw on Aug 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good I wanted a quick and dirty to parse a CSV in js the other day and just added square brackets around it and used JSON.parse. Am I alone in this?

gsck on Aug 14, 2024 [–]

That's actually pretty smart.

The amount of times I have written a simple CSV parser to correctly handle quoted strings and the like is more times than I have digits when I could just pretend its JSON.

Going to make a mental note to try this next time!

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