I have a DataTable of data from an Access database that I need to display in a <textarea> as tab-delimited text. My first thought was just using a Repeater and use the ItemTemplate to format the row, but the issue is that Visual Studio will automatically convert tab characters to a set of ordinary spaces. Is there some way to get around ...
I am looking for some best practices as far as handling csv and tab delimited files. For CSV files I am already doing some formatting if a value contains a comma or double quote but what if the value contains a new line character? Should I leave the new line intact and encase the value in double quotes + escape any double quotes within ...
What's the most low-tech but reliable way of storing tuples of UTF-8 strings on disk? Storage should be append-only for reliability. As part of a document storage system I'm experimenting with I have to store UTF-8 tuple data on disk. Obviously, for a full-blown implementation, I want to use something like Amazon S3, Project Voldemort, ...
I am dealing with large amounts of scientific data that are stored in tab separated .tsv files. The typical operations to be performed are reading several large files, filtering out only certain columns/rows, joining with other sources of data, adding calculated values and writing the result as another .tsv. The plain text is used for i...