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  • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    it had an option to export your comments into a .csv, so theoretically you could post them elsewhere if you want

    but that could be a lot of work so I understand just leaving comments as they are

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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      Archiving copies of my Reddit history would be nice, but here’s a somewhat idiotic question.

      I use commas in copy a lot, so a CSV file sounds like a nightmare. How’s that handled?

      • Cipher@beehaw.org
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        Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)

        • T0RB1T@beehaw.org
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          Isn’t a tab delimeted spreadsheet normally called a TSV, as in “Tab-Separated Values”?

          Isn’t CSV literally Comma-Separated Values?

          Sorry, pedantry doesn’t die.

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            A little bit yes, a little bit no

            Tab delimited csv are sometimes called tsv, but just as often you’ll see csv (tab delimited) as a file type option

            See the wiki section on standardization for details.

            Csv currently includes the following delimiters:

            Comma, space, tab, pipe, or semicolon

        • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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          Now that you point it out, I remember being able to set delimiters on exports. It’s just been ages since I was generating them.

      • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgM
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        you can enclose the contents of a field in double quotes so that commas within a field don’t break it.