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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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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?
Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)
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.
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
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.
so I just looked at the .csv it spat out, it encloses everything in quotes. here is what it looks like with the actual details changed:
"Title","Body","Permalink","Score","Timestamp UTC","Actions",
"","example comment start, example comment middle, example comment end","https.../","2","1686084708","deleted ",
HOWEVER, looking at this .csv I don't think it actually exported all of my comments. I don't really care about saving my reddit comments but I'm 99% sure it is missing my oldest comments from this account so use at your own risk I suppose
it did a wonderful job of deleting everything though, my account looks totally empty from the profile page
I believe CSV format has quoting rules. Hope the software understands them. :)