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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Archiving copies of my Reddit history would be nice, but here's a somewhat idiotic question.

I use commas in copy a lot, so a CSV file sounds like a nightmare. How's that handled?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I believe CSV format has quoting rules. Hope the software understands them. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't a tab delimeted spreadsheet normally called a TSV, as in "Tab-Separated Values"?

Isn't CSV literally Comma-Separated Values?

Sorry, pedantry doesn't die.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A little bit yes, a little bit no

Tab delimited csv are sometimes called tsv, but just as often you'll see csv (tab delimited) as a file type option

See the wiki section on standardization for details.

Csv currently includes the following delimiters:

Comma, space, tab, pipe, or semicolon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Now that you point it out, I remember being able to set delimiters on exports. It's just been ages since I was generating them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you can enclose the contents of a field in double quotes so that commas within a field don't break it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

so I just looked at the .csv it spat out, it encloses everything in quotes. here is what it looks like with the actual details changed:

"Title","Body","Permalink","Score","Timestamp UTC","Actions",

"","example comment start, example comment middle, example comment end","https.../","2","1686084708","deleted ",

HOWEVER, looking at this .csv I don't think it actually exported all of my comments. I don't really care about saving my reddit comments but I'm 99% sure it is missing my oldest comments from this account so use at your own risk I suppose

it did a wonderful job of deleting everything though, my account looks totally empty from the profile page