2012/4/19 ольга крыжановская <[email protected]>
> Clark, I agree that %#q is not very intuitive. Stronger said, I HATE > it. It lacks flexibility, has no room for future extensions, is not > very descriptive and only covers one form of csv while there are MANY > variants of CSV, > I did not expect too much. But it really helps me do some simple manipulation on the csv file exported from Gmail contacts. I ever tried to write some shell functions myself to do that and this is the only reason for me to wish the shell (bash or ksh) to have csv support. :) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Lack_of_a_standard > tells a bit of the story. > There is rfc4180 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180) but it lacks > wide spread adoption yet and does not help with the millions of > existing csv files and software which do not use the syntax of > rfc4180. > > Olga >
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