Kai Naumann wrote:
> Dear all,
> we are planning a business rule for the character separated value format
> (aka tabbed format), dealing with the best choice for field delimiter, and
> with the problem of text delimiters encountered inside texts.
>
> Whereas the rule itself will not be too complicated, it seems more difficult
> to bring up tools that can be customized to meet our requirements.
>
> Do you know any documented best practice (since there is no registered csv
> format)? Is there any tool you can recommend?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kai.
There is an IETF RFC for CSV at http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt.
I'm not sure what the official status is though.
Tom
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Thomas G. Habing
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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