Michel Fortin. Thanks for reminding me of something I actually saw in
multiple emails and ascii documentation.
This is what I saw not too long ago. A table structure like this
Year | Make | Model
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1997, Ford, E350
1999, Chevy, Venture "Extended Edition"
1999, Chevy, Venture "Extended Edition"
1996, Jeep, Grand Cherokee
This is a good compromise I think. And will definitely fit what I seen
many times.
Btw csv is a pretty loose standard. So the above csv should work still
for many csv parsers.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Michel Fortin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 5-sept.-2014 à 5:28, mofo syne <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> |:- Year -|:- Make -|:- Model -:|
>> 1997, Ford, E350
>> 1999, Chevy, "Venture ""Extended Edition"" "
>> 1999, Chevy, "Venture ""Extended Edition"" "
>> 1996, Jeep, Grand Cherokee
>
> Doesn't make much sense to me. I mean, it doesn't look too bad until you get
> to the quoted text part and have to escape quotes using a CSV-style
> double-quote escape instead of the Markdown-style backslash. Also, quoting
> the whole value is required in CSV anytime you have a comma in one of your
> cell which isn't a rare occurrence.
>
> I think PSV (pipe-separated-value) is better because you're much less likely
> to have pipes in your text. And also it's better to reuse our current escape
> mechanism in the unlikely event you have pipes in your cells. And that brings
> us back to what everyone is already using for tables in Markdown, which
> aren't harder to maintain if you don't care about making the text form pretty.
>
> This is also a perfectly valid Markdown Extra table:
>
> Year|Make|Model
> ----|----|-----
> 1997|Ford|E350
> 1999|Chevy|Venture "Extended Edition"
> 1999|Chevy|Venture "Extended Edition"
> 1996|Jeep|Grand Cherokee
>
>
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