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No idea. I've been bitten by a library that turned out well into a project to have pernicious flaws.

It would be awesome if someone made a table with CSV features in one dimension and application/library behaviour in the other.

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The problem is that CSV is basically non discoverable, as it has no metadata eg about encoding or delimiters or locale... Thats why Excel gives you a sample and lets you change delimiters etc. You can guess, or you can write something that seems to work for a particular input source. But it is best avoided.

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