(skeletor is leading by example by adding that unnecessary apostrophe…)

    • zaphod@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Common CSV parsers don’t require it and I’ve seen plenty of examples of unquoted CSV cells (which, given there’s no actual standard for the format, isn’t too surprising). Hell I’ve created my fair share while throwing together ad hoc datasets. The idea that some of these dumps might be made by folks who are too careless to properly quote and escape their CSV data isn’t hard to believe at all.