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Re: Support for CSV file format on sort


From: William Bader
Subject: Re: Support for CSV file format on sort
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:13:35 +0000

> I’d prefer to have reliable tools to convert csv to tsv and tsv to csv

If someone writes a new tool, could it be general enough to support any 
unicode-separated format, for example psv: 
https://paulfitz.github.io/2017/01/24/the-year-of-poop-on-the-desktop.html ?

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From: coreutils <coreutils-bounces+williambader=hotmail.com@gnu.org> on behalf 
of Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:21 PM
To: coreutils@gnu.org <coreutils@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Support for CSV file format on sort

✓ Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor wrote:
> Actually I’d prefer to have reliable tools to convert csv to tsv and tsv to
> csv, replacing tabs and newlines by \t \n and to be able to use all
> standard tools

I would find this approach the better direction, more desirable, and
more flexible too.

Bob


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