CSV again.
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sun Oct 18 18:46:18 EDT 2015
Mike Kerner wrote:
> I don't have a corner case file, yet, but I'm going to start adding one to
> Git in a minute...
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > At this point, finding a function that does the task at all -- reliably
>> > and taking into account most of the csv malformations we can anticipate
>> --
>> > would be a start.
The snippet included in my article is commonly used to test CSV parsers,
which is unfortunate since it only covers a relatively small handful of
edge cases - I added a case for in-data returns just below it:
<http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/csv-must-die.html>
Even then woefully incomplete, but hopefully worthwhile as at least a
starting point.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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