CSV again.

[Richard Gaskin]

Mike Kerner wrote:
> For everyone trying to get back up to speed on CSV, here's the closest
> thing to a "Standard", RFC 4180:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180

Unfortunately the "format" was around for so long before that RFC, and 
so many big companies have ignored the RFC since, that it doesn't 
reflect the staggeringly rich variety of escapes and quoting conventions 
found in real-world data.

Doesn't hurt to make sure whatever we come up with handles the spec, but 
the spec doesn't handle a lot of what the world calls "CSV".

(And don't even get me started about files delimited by things other 
than commas that identify themselves by the acronym for "Comma-Separated 
Values").

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