LXer: How to guess the field separator in a table

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10-04-2019, 03:03 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,423 Rep:	LXer: How to guess the field separator in a table Published at LXer: So I download the table "blahblahblah.csv" for data auditing. Muttering a quick prayer to MIME, the goddess of file formats, I open the table. Yes! Despite the ".csv" filename suffix, the table is actually tab-separated, not comma-separated. Once again I've escaped the dreaded Curse of the CSV Monster. But did I have to actually open the file to check the format? Read More...

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