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TIL that RFC 4180 specifies the CSV format to use CRLF line endings (datatracker.ietf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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I noticed a repository's .gitattributes entry for *.csv used text eol=crlf so I investigated and found this.

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Unless you open it in Excel. In which case bad things will happen no matter what you have in the CSV…

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

If I am using Excel, I am using Windows and I will be changing all text to use CR-LF newline format (if sending from a Linux system) anyway.

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