CSV again.

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Tue May 15 14:18:54 EDT 2012


That is a perfect case example of why CSV parsers can never be perfect. Unescaped delimiters in field contents should never have been allowed when they came up with the "standard" for CSV files. 

Bob


On May 15, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> I'll probably have to implement some sort of mechanism for reading in a
> given number of lines.  BUT..  a carriage return in the middle of a quoted
> cell will be taken by the read for x lines command to be the end of a line
> so I could end up with a partial line in my read buffer.





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