Poll of the Day > Any of you programming duders know what a .csv is?

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I'm supposed to "l2" use them

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Well, you don't need to need to be a programmer to know what a csv is or how to use it.

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Uh comma seperated values. Make sure to save a copy of the table and for the love of crust please dont make a project for gps navigation

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l2??

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Zangulus posted...

Is this a serious question?

PotD being super helpful as always

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Zangulus posted...

Reading things wrong, as always. I was asking a serious question to see if he actually did need help, or if he was just making a topic like a lot of them around here... where it's more of a joke than an actual request for help. But yes, be snarky.

My bad bro

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Zangulus posted...

Reading things wrong, as always. I was asking a serious question to see if he actually did need help, or if he was just making a topic like a lot of them around here... where it's more of a joke than an actual request for help. But yes, be snarky.

It's both

I am serious, I'm learning about .csv for the first time... but I phrased it in a joking manner

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oh....

so it's something i've been doing for years and just didn't know was already a thing

That's like that time I discovered pepper is delicious on meat.

EDIT:
Like if you wanted to make an X sprite in Qbasic using data blocks, it might look like

DATA 1,0,0,0,1
DATA 0,1,0,1,0
DATA 0,0,1,0,0
DATA 0,1,0,1,0
DATA 1,0,0,0,1


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As an aside, I do appreciate that Zang understands how my brain works

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I'm confused. Is there even a question in this thread?

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CSV predates personal computers.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

CSV predates personal computers.

Ya, it was apparently an incredibly common thing I just didn't know the name for

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why are you supposed to "l2" use them?

if you parse them manually, note that a tricky part is that you can't simply split the line by the delimiter, due to there possibly being string values. basically, you need to count quotation marks.

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Sahuagin posted...

why are you supposed to "l2" use them?

I was asking a topic about RPG Maker (I use Studio, but it's all the same really) about making long dialogue trees and they responded with basically "just use a csv"

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probably a better format for saving a dialogue tree to a text file would be XML or JSON.

a CSV is good for basically a single table of data. so a list of records all of the same type.

XML and JSON will let you store hierarchical data of varying type.

these days, XML is starting to move towards obsoletion and JSON is probably the better choice between the two.

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Ya, I think what happened is I asked a stupid question 'cuz I didn't know a thing I do already exists and I got responded to with snark (l2 csv)

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I'm glad XML is kind of on the way out. I find it really ugly

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There's no way XML is leaving any time soon.
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I imagine the CSV you would create for a dialogue tree would look like this. I dont actually know because I am not a programmer:

Question 1.1, Choice A
Question 1.1, Choice B
Question 2.1, Choice C
Question 2.1, Choice D
Question 2.2, Choice E
Question 2.2, Choice F

but then you would need a way of knowing which choice leads to what question.


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Lokarin posted...

oh....

so it's something i've been doing for years and just didn't know was already a thing

That's like that time I discovered pepper is delicious on meat.

EDIT:
Like if you wanted to make an X sprite in Qbasic using data blocks, it might look like

DATA 1,0,0,0,1
DATA 0,1,0,1,0
DATA 0,0,1,0,0
DATA 0,1,0,1,0
DATA 1,0,0,0,1

Qbasic...whew!

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Its a pharmacy/store

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blackhrt posted...

Qbasic...whew!

It's where I started and it's what I'm most familiar with... I basically learned programming my modding nibble.bas and gorilla.bas

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