Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/20/84 11:24

On Fri, August 19, 2005 7:45 pm, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
>>>If other file formats are possible as well as CSV, you might like to
>>>look at the PEAR "File Formats" packages[1].
>>
>> Now TAB delimited is generally easier than CSV as it IS as simple as
>> reading a line and explode() on "\t"
>
> Unless of course the field is delimited with quotes and contains an
> embedded tab character? Just a guess, I haven't had any reason to use
> tab-delimited files before.

tab-delimited does not allow tabs in data, nor newlines.

There is no escape character.

It follows the KISS principle.

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