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randomdata on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s to love about C?

To be fair, CSV is a relatively complex format with all kinds of edge cases and gotchas. In a test like situation, I'm sure 80% of the people would probably fail the test if done in any language.

dkhenry on June 11, 2012 [–]

Right which is why they are just asked to read in a given file and print out the contents slightly formatted, not make a full CSV parser.

Most people can't open a file and read in the contents, forget parsing the contents just reading them in is where most people fail.

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