• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I don’t get the joke… ?

    I am assuming there really is a standardized format that uses tabs? Or do you just see it as intuitive to replace the commas with tabs? I’m really curious. I haven’t typically worked with huge datasets but when I’ve worked with exported/transitional data stored in files it is normally either a json or a csv (or a mysql export).

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      1 month ago

      Bit of a joke related to bringing “what is TSV” to an “intense” TSV vs CSV debate.

      As for TSV itself, it’s a widely used standard from 32 years ago, and is often a default record delimiter when used with GNU/POSIX tools.

      It mostly exists as legacy at this point, as people now prefer quoted values like those given in CSV (ver2) and JSON formats.