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		cycojesus on Aug 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I shipped my first product you can also add this `sep=;` as the first line of the .csv file. This way it will inform the opening application of the separator in use (tested with Excel.)

chriseidhof on Aug 10, 2011 [–]

Wow, I didn't know that! I think all of the .csv parsing code I wrote in the last years will break on this... thanks!

AaronInCincy on Aug 10, 2011 | [–]

Don't write CSV parsing code. You'll never get it right.

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