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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] catsup@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh man I'd love to run that but I feel it'd be wrong to purge all of the technical answers I've posted over the years. I think it's better to pass on that one

[–] EponymousBosh@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

You can filter by subreddit in Power Suite Delete, so if your tech answers are in specific subs, you can leave those alone and delete everything else

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it had an option to export your comments into a .csv, so theoretically you could post them elsewhere if you want

but that could be a lot of work so I understand just leaving comments as they are

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Archiving copies of my Reddit history would be nice, but here's a somewhat idiotic question.

I use commas in copy a lot, so a CSV file sounds like a nightmare. How's that handled?

[–] Cipher@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)

[–] T0RB1T@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't a tab delimeted spreadsheet normally called a TSV, as in "Tab-Separated Values"?

Isn't CSV literally Comma-Separated Values?

Sorry, pedantry doesn't die.

[–] Cipher@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

A little bit yes, a little bit no

Tab delimited csv are sometimes called tsv, but just as often you'll see csv (tab delimited) as a file type option

See the wiki section on standardization for details.

Csv currently includes the following delimiters:

Comma, space, tab, pipe, or semicolon

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you can enclose the contents of a field in double quotes so that commas withing a field don't break it.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I believe CSV format has quoting rules. Hope the software understands them. :)