• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I don’t get the joke… ?

      I am assuming there really is a standardized format that uses tabs? Or do you just see it as intuitive to replace the commas with tabs? I’m really curious. I haven’t typically worked with huge datasets but when I’ve worked with exported/transitional data stored in files it is normally either a json or a csv (or a mysql export).

      • tetris11@feddit.uk
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        6 months ago

        Bit of a joke related to bringing “what is TSV” to an “intense” TSV vs CSV debate.

        As for TSV itself, it’s a widely used standard from 32 years ago, and is often a default record delimiter when used with GNU/POSIX tools.

        It mostly exists as legacy at this point, as people now prefer quoted values like those given in CSV (ver2) and JSON formats.

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          6 months ago

          Also most of (continental) Europe uses semi-colon delimiter, because comma is decimal separator.

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            6 months ago

            I hate this so much, decimal localisation should be visually represented and saved with decimal points.

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                6 months ago

                Would you want time to be saved as the 1/1000000 of a moon cycle since the last celestial alignment? Or rather, would you care it it’s visualised as Christian based time?