http://www.metafilter.com/tags/pipe-delimited Posts tagged with 'pipe-delimited' at MetaFilter. Sat, 20 May 2000 22:20:03 -0800 Sat, 20 May 2000 22:20:03 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/1762/ Camworld points to the [second page of] the Encyclopedia Brown piece (like everyone *else* who didn't actually *read* it; *Busted!* :-) and also to <a href="http://www.cardhouse.com/computer/bsv.htm">Comma Separated Values Considered Harmful</a>, a treatise that the vertical bar character ("|") is a better field separator in tabular text data files than the comma or even the tab.<br> <br> Is that really news? It wasn't to *me*... tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.1762 Sat, 20 May 2000 22:20:03 -0800 bar brokenlink cardhouse character ConsideredHarmful CSV pipe PipeDelimited pipe-delimited TabularData baylink