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  • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

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

        • T0RB1T@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          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.orgEnglish
            3·
            2 years 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

        • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Now that you point it out, I remember being able to set delimiters on exports. It’s just been ages since I was generating them.

      • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

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

      • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        so I just looked at the .csv it spat out, it encloses everything in quotes. here is what it looks like with the actual details changed:

        “Title”,“Body”,“Permalink”,“Score”,“Timestamp UTC”,“Actions”,

        “”,“example comment start, example comment middle, example comment end”,“https…/”,“2”,“1686084708”,"deleted ",

        HOWEVER, looking at this .csv I don’t think it actually exported all of my comments. I don’t really care about saving my reddit comments but I’m 99% sure it is missing my oldest comments from this account so use at your own risk I suppose

        it did a wonderful job of deleting everything though, my account looks totally empty from the profile page