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Right, the author skipped right over human-readable TSV files which play nicely with sed/awk/grep/sort pipelines, and are supported by all CSV parsers and spreadsheet software.


TSV is also my go-to when mucking around on the command line. Perfect for noodling with data before you have to put together an Excel file to show to management.


The problem is that people (non-technical mostly), put tabs in fields, and then you have all the problems that the article notes.


I personally find that this happens (a lot) less often than with commas or quote characters.


That's fair, but it only takes one to mess up the rest of the file.


Agreed, that's why it's not good for production processes.




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