Re: CSVQL? CSV SQL? tab-separated table I/O? RENAME COLUMN

On Wed, 2 May 2018 16:01:01 -0700, Adrian Klaver
<adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:

>On 05/02/2018 02:29 PM, Jim Michaels wrote:
>
>> 
>> - the microsoft patented CSV would be required for implementation. it
>> handles special data with commas and double-quotes in them
>
>Huh?:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#History


Disclaimer ... I haven't investigated the claim.

However, I would not discount the possibility that Microsoft really
has patented some variation of CSV.  They absolutely did *try* to
copyright the use of + and - symbols for specifying addition and
subtraction operations in VisualBASIC.

It's possible that they slipped something past the examiners.  But
more likely the use of a CSV-like format was specified to be part of a
larger process.  In that case the format itself might not be claimed,
but rather only the *use* of the format for some specific purpose.

IANAL,
George