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Subject: Re: [9fans] csv files -> embarrasing
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:28:58 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> 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