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in thread Double quotes in CSV using Text::CSV

Two ideas:

Saving bytes
Yes, despite having Gigabit networks and Terabyte harddisks, some people discuss every single byte.
A primitive type system on top of CSV
Unquoted numbers represent numbers, quoted numbers are just strings (as in JSON).

Alexander

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Re^5: Double quotes in CSV using Text::CSV
by aaron_baugher (Curate) on May 19, 2015 at 22:25 UTC

    #3: The homework assignment says not to quote them.

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