Converting a CSV file to a Lua table and Lua file

Converting a CSV file to a Lua table and Lua file

[Otared Kavian]

Hi all,

I have a bash script which converts a CSV file into a Lua table, which is then used in ConTeXt.
It works fine, but I wonder whether there is a code within LuaMetaTeX for doing this directly there (writing a new file which contains the Lua table). This would be more efficient and neater.

Thus a CSV file « example.csv » containing the lines:

X,Y,Z
0.05597,0.6612,0.8618
0.156804,0.8784,0.961
0.496804,0.8784,0.9324
0.176804,0.648,0.9643

would be converted and wriiten into a lua file « example.lua » containing the lines:

return{
--	{X,Y,Z},
	{0.05597,0.6612,0.8618}
	{0.156804,0.8784,0.961}
	{0.496804,0.8784,0.9324}
	{0.176804,0.648,0.9643}
	}


Thanks in advance for any help: Otared K.
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