ZZartin (7/7/2015)

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Well in all fairness any flatfile format that isn't properly generated on the source side is going to break your dataflow. As for why csv are more popular it's because they were a more consistent standard, tabs might be a standard now but on older systems some might interpret a tab as 4 spaces some might interpret them as 8 spaces etc.... Similar issue with line breaks since for whatever reason MS decided to go with CR+NL for line breaks and nix systems use just NL i believe, that difference can make you cry if you're working on both platforms, fun is trying to figure out why the password you're copying and pasting at 3 in the morning from excel into a java program isn't working.