From the "criticisms" section: You shouldn't be working with CSV data because CSV is a terrible format.
Er, what's wrong with it? Or is this a case of, people using it for things other than what it's meant for? Is there a better format for sending data between different companies using different enterprisey database systems?
My complaint about csv is that people frequently generate it manually and don't understand how to quote text fields, so they don't double any quote characters that are part of the data. Which means I have to spend time cleaning up malformed files.
Er, what's wrong with it? Or is this a case of, people using it for things other than what it's meant for? Is there a better format for sending data between different companies using different enterprisey database systems?
My complaint about csv is that people frequently generate it manually and don't understand how to quote text fields, so they don't double any quote characters that are part of the data. Which means I have to spend time cleaning up malformed files.