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		slivanes on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have... Quoting every column is a safe way to handle this, at the cost of slightly larger files. You can then escape a quote with another quote.

robocat on July 7, 2022 [–]

That is just one simple problem. People say CSV is hard because it is hard: https://www.delimited.dev/csv-file-quirks/

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