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		derefr on Aug 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Time to retire the CSV? > that it can only have scalars in it (no sub-arrays or objects) I see CSV files that contain JSON arrays/objects in their fields all the time. Mainly from exporting Postgres tables that contain json/jsonb-typed columns. Are you saying that these aren't valid CSVs?

zerocrates on Aug 19, 2021 | [–]

They're saying that a CSV equivalent should be strictly 2-dimensional, with "flat" values.

Such a format could contain arbitrary JSON in a "cell", but simply as text, in the same way as putting the same data in a CSV.

shaftoe on Aug 19, 2021 | [–]

These are strings containing JSON

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