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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:34:17 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] csv files -> embarrasing
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ooks slightly more painful than the previous case, but i think that
using my original trick, one can continue to add elements to the
lifing pipeline and move character-stuffed " and \" out of the way, too.

and didn't i learn that trick well from parsing data from yahoo categories.

- erik

On Sun Apr 30 05:38:13 CDT 2006, mattmobile@proweb.co.uk wrote:
>  > Is parsing CSV really so difficult?
>
> depends on your CSV
>
> 1, "2", "3""3","4, 4", "5\",5"
>
> which I interpret as (\n separated) :
> 1
> 2
> 3"3
> 4, 4
> 5",5
>
>
> If you've ever worked with Excel CSV you know what CSV hell is like