You could write a fast parser for it in minutes. It would be reasonably compact, efficient to parse and easy to manually edit (Notepad++ shows the unit separator as a ‘US’ symbol). If you want to put \u001F or \u001E in your data – tough you can’t.
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Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers don’t even agree on how to interpret some edge cases for CSV. Writing a parser to handle all the different dialects is not at all trivial. Use of separators and line endings are inconsistent (sometimes comma, sometimes semicolon). It is difficult to parse efficiently using multiple cores, due to the quoting (you can’t start parsing from part way through a file). One quote in the wrong place and the file is invalid.
And they are all highly sub-optimal for the job.ĬSV is a mess. Most tabular data currently gets exchanged as: CSV, Tab separated, XML, JSON or Excel. There doesn’t seem to be anything that is reasonably space efficient, simple and quick to parse and text based (not binary) so you can view and edit it with a standard editor. It is an important part of my data transformation software.
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I support reading and writing tabular data in various formats in all 3 of my software application. So if you want to start a business, don’t be put off by not knowing what you are doing. Running a business involves making a lot of decisions under great uncertainty in a constantly changing environment. It is easy to read 20/20 hindsight accounts of successful businesses and assume they they knew exactly what they needed to do at each stage. A lot of guessing and gut feel is still involved. But things are constantly changing and I still don’t know day-to-day if I should be spending more time on SEO, partnerships, Youtube videos, new features, a better website, or thousand other things I could be doing. After 17 years I know a lot more about my market and running a software business. But when I launched my seating planner software, I really had no idea if I would sell a single licence. I’ve been making a full-time living selling my own software since 2005. Most of us who are running businesses had no real idea what they were doing when they started, and still struggle with decisions now.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. A more mediocre bunch of individuals would be hard to find. Just look at the current British government.
Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing.
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