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fecal_hengetoday at 7:29 AM1 replyview on HN

Also CSV files would not exist.


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rswailtoday at 8:48 AM

Comma Separated files would likely exist because they're human readable, whereas FS/GS/RS/CR/LF are not visible.

There is "pipe delimited" which used "|" (ASCII 124 decimal) to separate fields, which actually makes way more sense, because that character is rarely used in normal text.

It's also a good separator when a human is reading the file.

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