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Detecting the delimiter in CSVs that lie

File extensions for data sharing sometimes lie about their contents. Here is an algorithm to infer the actual delimiter of a CSV, TSV or any related format: - Assume that alpha-numeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and the period/full stop (.) are cannot be delimiters. - Begin with input te...

By Tim McNamara