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On 11/16/2013 2:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Darren Pilgrim
> <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote:
>> On 11/16/2013 8:25 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> That's parseable using the regex or literal matching built into every
>> scripting language, most programming languages, and your average human.
>
> Sure, but it requires extra tooling to make it work.  I don't care
> which file the data are stored in, I just
> (a) don't want it to be free form
> (b) want it to be in some standard format.
>
>> If
>> you want to carry on about using an existing format, the above is CSV
>> (character-separated values)--one of the most well-established and
>> well-supported file formats in existence.
>
> Eh, the format proposed does not even come close to RFC 4180 (CSV).

Heh.  Pre-coffee brain failure. :) It is, however, the same format used 
for headers is pretty much everything.