Re: [Pythoncard-users] CSV for PythonCard

[Magnus L. H. <ml...@id...>]

> I suspect the docstring is a killer:
> 
>     Generalized to be usable for any delimiter but \n.
> 
> Many tools can generate CSV files with fields containing newlines.

Really? And what do they use as record separator?

The CSV standard is pretty clear, IIRC: Lines are separated by
newlines (possibly cr etc.), and fields by commas. Fields
_containing_ commas must be enclosed by quotes, and any literal
quotes must be doubled.

I thought most tools followed this standard... Otherwise, calling
the format CSV is something of a misnomer, I should think...

But I may (certainly) be wrong.

> Skip

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