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CSV is bad. Furthermore it’s unnecessary. ASCII has field and record separator characters that were for this purpose.

That would be great if keyboards had keys for those characters and there was a common way to display them on a screen, but they don't and there isn't.

That's a feature, not a bug

I can’t remember the last time I or anyone else I know typed a CSV file out. It’s almost universally the lowest common denominator interchange format.

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