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I hate this kind of format. It's trying to be both a data format for computers and a display format for humans. Much better off just using a tool that can edit CSV files as tables.

Also it doesn't seem to say anything about the header row?

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CSV is also a display format for humans and also for computers. Its also a terrible one because its too variable FS is variable, escapes could exist, "" could be used, this slows down parsing.

I wouldn't say CSV is a display format. Attempting to edit it by hand is pretty error prone, and reading it is hard work.

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