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The Joys of an Unspecified Format

I’m currently importing batches of CSV (comma separated value) data into a MySQL database, using phpmyadmin.

As you might expect, phpmyadmin has a default character to “separate” the “values”.  As you might not expect, the default is… a semicolon.

2 Responses to “The Joys of an Unspecified Format”

  1. Geoff Says:

    hrmm, I *might* have guessed at a different value separator, but I have been known to be lax in my interpretation when it comes to these things. Perhaps they should call it Delimiter Separated Value instead?

  2. jennie Says:

    that’s great. stupidly great. or greatly stupid.

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