Comment on Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage ProjectparentComments−M4v3R3ySure, there are some edge cases where guessing the separator would be hard, but in 99% of cases you can correctly identify the separator pretty easily and in case you can't you just don't pre-fill that field in the import dialog.−PTOB3yPsst, the joke is that it's a "comma separated variable" file.−cxr3yThe V in CSV doesn't stand for "variable". And that wasn't the joke.
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Sure, there are some edge cases where guessing the separator would be hard, but in 99% of cases you can correctly identify the separator pretty easily and in case you can't you just don't pre-fill that field in the import dialog.
Psst, the joke is that it's a "comma separated variable" file.
The V in CSV doesn't stand for "variable". And that wasn't the joke.