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Comment by rickdeckard

1 day ago

yeah, what Excel does is, it assumes the comma and separator of your regional settings and doesn't care if it fails or not.

> In practice, a CSV file can decide to use `|` for comma, and `<>` instead of quotes.

Ofc it is. Now try to edit that CSV with Excel and save it again in that format.

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