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A good one I saw recently was a text file that, even though it had a .csv file extension was actually using another character as a delimiter (in this case colons) but as it contained large amounts of textual data actually had a enough commas to be parsed as a CSV file.

VS Code and a suitable extension handled this rather better than Excel.



Sounds like CSV in this case stood for Colon Separate Data


Further generalization: Character Separated Values




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