Re: Data table text I/O package?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
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> Randy Brukardt wrote:
> > OTOH, if the performance of the connection isn't critical, then using a
> > well-known standard format that already has needed tools for it seems
like
> > the best option.
>
> I consider text/tab-separated-values a standard format. Whether it's
> well-known is debatable. The definition is here:
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separated-values

Never heard of this one. It seems like the world's worst choice for a file
format, since the first thing any decent text tool will do is discard any
tabs. I'm amazed that anyone would actually standardize such junk. I'm much
more familiar with CSV files (which also seemed pretty silly to me, but I
kinda think the entire data-in-a-text file thing is pretty silly).

                    Randy.