There's no need to be shy about asking: why is #CSV better?

Our new course ‘Quality and Consistent Data with #OpenDataEditor’ takes you by the hand.

https://buff.ly/2auDeBy

In this lesson, you learn the anatomy of CSV and why it's a key format for #opendata.

A tariff on all CSV imports would bankrupt the world.

Throwing this one out there. I’m scratching my head. I am just on the trial of Microsoft Reporting Server to see if I can find a workaround for a client. Unable to alter a CSV column header to suit our import needs. Anyone know of a fix or suggestion? Trying to push a forward slash in but CLS compliance is kicking my butt along with the “trial” version of SSRS not allowing me to modify the config file for a CSV no header output… #ssrs #csv

I need a solution to temporarly monitor an internet link. My idea is to #ping every 10 seconds 2..3 urls and record the response time in a #csv.
But I'm wondering if there is already a solution out there that runs on a simple #Debian #server?

#dataengineer handling #csv files ? 

Try https://www.nanocell-csv.com

#opensource coded with

"Excel hates CSV - It clearly means CSV must be doing something right"
-- xan, the #CSV magician
https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md

Parsing CSV with units in the header · Issue #166 · hgrecco/pint-pandas

https://github.com/hgrecco/pint-pandas/issues/166

Now we can read a #csv file with a header like `time / s,mass / g` into #pandas and call `.pint.quantify()` to get a #dataframe in which the columns have #units as in #Pints !

Handy for CSV restricted to single-row headers, as in Confluence Databases and Microsoft Lists.

#TIL about #Visidata: https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/

If you ever need to wrangle, filter, sort, edit, navigate, subset or get basic statistics out of #data in #CSV format (comma-separated values), this is a super useful piece of software. It takes raw data and implements a very handy subset of functionality from spreadsheets directly on top, with both a keyboard (modal Vi-style operation) and menu/mouse driven operation.

Nice one to have in the toolchest.

Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 85 (2025-13)

Themen:

Neues Feature für bikerouter.de: Kurzlinks und verbesserte QR Codes

Automatisch bei Blog-Updates den Uberblogr-Webring pingen

Neuer Schlauch für die Absaugung in der Werkstatt

Unbekannte Holzart entdeckt

snips.sh: SSH-basiertes Pastebin, Opengist als weitere Alternative für GitHub Gists

CLI-Tool der Woche: xsv

In dieser Woche gehört: SOS U-Ground B2B Tobias Sommer, Taberia

#Wochenrückblick #Bikerouter #QRCode #UberBlogr #Webring #Absaugschlauch #Werkstatt #Woodworking #Holz #Drechseln #snips.sh #Gist #Gitea #GitHub #Opengist #CLI #Shell #xsv #CSV #TSV #Techno

https://www.marcusjaschen.de/blog/2025/2025-13/

XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal

https://github.com/medialab/xan

How to Split Comma-Separated Values with Multiple Items in Brackets?
Efficiently parsing comma-separated values (CSV) in DB2 LUW strings, even with delimiters within the data, is now possible! Learn how XMLTABLE handles complex string formats for accurate data extraction. #DB2 #XMLTABLE #StringParsing #CSV #DataExtraction #DB2LUW
https://tech-champion.com/programming/how-to-split-comma-separated-values-with-multiple-items-in-brackets/
...

Unreal Engine and Version Control https://frederickkdp.github.io/game_dev/ue_journal/2025/03/28/ue-vc.html #UnrealEngine5 #version_control #csv

wow this `xan` that showed up in #macOS #homebrew today is pretty sweet. it's written in #rust and is a #csv slice-and-dice tool.

https://github.com/medialab/xan

A love letter to the #CSV format — https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md

Oh, the sheer #romance of spreadsheets—because nothing says "I love you" like wrestling with comma placement while your eyes bleed from staring at mismatched rows. GitHub's love letter to CSV: a tale of passion, punctuation, and why #AI needs #therapy.
https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md #spreadsheets #CSV #GitHub #humor #HackerNews #ngated

A Love Letter to the CSV Format

https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md

Not sure who needs this (apart from me, of course), but just pushed my rof2csv tool:
https://github.com/branch-predictor/rof2csv
Use it to convert Rigol's ROF files (produced by Rigol DP800 series programmable power supplies) into CSV files that can be fed into Excel or LibreOffice Calc.
#programming #SoftwareDevelopment #rigol #rof #csv

Days since ad-hoc #csv parsing has ruined my day: