[TxMt] Re: Regular expression conundrum (CSV)

Jacob Rus jrus at hcs.harvard.edu
Mon Feb 26 00:50:41 UTC 2007


James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2007, at 6:17 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:
> 
>> There is no single 'csv' spec, so there is no bright line between 
>> 'valid' and 'invalid' csv here.
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt
> 
> James Edward Gray II

Okay, but notice that's from 2005, which means that lots of the 'csv' 
documents from decades of history before that don't conform.  It doesn't 
look to me like that spec even covers the full range of MS Excel 
generated/accepted csv files.




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