Nobody Agrees What a CSV Is

CSV is simple but powerful. Values, separated by commas. It's easy to understand and use. It is also, by a wide margin, the one that destroys the most data. That's not a paradox. It's cause and effect. A format simple enough that everyone writes their own parser is a format with as many dialects as it has parsers, and CSV's defining property is that it carries no information about how to read it.…