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Ah! Now I know what you're asking. Well, my point wasn't that CSV handlers need to be able to handle every possible bit of crud that is thrown at them. I was just saying that it would be useful if they would handle unescaped embedded delimiters -- perhaps not absolutely dirty data, but at least somewhat dusty data. :-)

Wally Hartshorn

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Re^8: Comparison of the parsing features of CSV (and xSV) modules
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jun 16, 2004 at 19:59 UTC
    Heh. Define "dusty". We can tell, but we have to be able to define it to a teddybear in order to have a computer handle it correctly. :-)

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