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[–] [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.