How should an email list .txt file be formatted?

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I'm working on some marketing software. One feature is to export the saved emails as a .txt file. How should the emails file be formatted if it includes just emails and names?

Ex:
email, name
email, name
email, name

name : email
name : email
name : email

name email,
name email,
name email

What's the standard?
#email #file #formatted #list #txt
  • Profile picture of the author buzilla
    There isn't a recognised standard.

    The two most common ways I have seen it done are:

    Code:
    name,email
    john smith,jsmith@email.com
    mary jones,mjones@email.com
    or with no key values:

    Code:
    john smith,jsmith@email.com
    mary jones,mjones@email.com
    You may also want to provide an option when users are exporting using your software to choose what type of separator is used. Depending on where the .txt file will be loaded they may want semi-colons or spaces to separate values.
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    • Profile picture of the author TwitterKing
      Originally Posted by buzilla View Post

      There isn't a recognised standard.

      The two most common ways I have seen it done are:

      Code:
      name,email
      john smith,jsmith@email.com
      mary jones,mjones@email.com
      or with no key values:

      Code:
      john smith,jsmith@email.com
      mary jones,mjones@email.com
      You may also want to provide an option when users are exporting using your software to choose what type of separator is used. Depending on where the .txt file will be loaded they may want semi-colons or spaces to separate values.
      Thanks, strange no un-official standard has been recognized by marketers.
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  • Profile picture of the author MartinPlatt
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    I'd have expected comma separated values (CSV) as mentioned above too.
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