csv parser

[Chris Sheffield]

Great. Thanks, Alex. This will definitely come in handy. Point taken about using tabs vs. commas as the delimiter. That would be my preference too, but I'm not sure I have control in this case. We'll see.

Thanks again,
Chris


On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Chris Sheffield wrote:
>> Wow, it's been a while since I've posted to the list. I first have to say congratulations to the Rev team on the release of Rev 4.0. I've been using it for a couple days now, and it's looking great.
>> 
>> I was wondering if anyone out there has written a csv parsing library in Rev and would be willing to share it. I'm in need of something that will read/write values to a csv file. I'll create my own if I have to, but obviously it would save me a ton of time if I don't have to.
>> 
>>  
> Not exactly a library, but there was a fairly extensive thread back in October 2004 about the perils of the various forms of csv file, and it included a couple of handlers to read in csv files - I think there was a very readable and straightforward one from Richard Gaskin, and later there was a very efficient (but significantly more complex and obscure) version from me, at
> 
> http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-October/045495.html
> 
> If you have any control at all, I'd recommend TSV (i.e. TAB Separated Values rather than Comma SVs).
> 
> -- alex.
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