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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] csv files -> embarrasing
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:28:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8872096007b709a802cbfd79c0dd621e@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c22c600f644b0141b2bf9b93b912407e@quintile.net>

> Ok, I have spent half an hour trying to parse CSV files
> and it's getting embarrasing, I could do it in C but I should
> be able to use rc + sed + awk.

A reliable CSV reader would be very useful.  I discovered that CSV can
be awkward, but I didn't think that was enough justification for never
having found any such tool.

Is parsing CSV really so difficult?

++L



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-28 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-28 14:36 Steve Simon
2006-04-28 14:43 ` quanstro
2006-04-28 16:29 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-28 18:28 ` lucio [this message]
2006-04-30 10:36   ` matt
2006-06-01 13:53 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-06-01 16:06   ` rog
2006-06-02  3:09 ` Rogelio Serrano
2006-05-01  0:34 erik quanstrom

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