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2013/12/3 Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm>:

> What’s the current best option for a CSV (or tab separated, for that matter) file?

Define "best".

> As far as I can tell, most solutions either:
>  - read the whole file in one go (constructing a table of all the values becomes
> impractical as files get larger)

Is this comment based on gut feel (I'm deliberately avoiding "prejudice"), or
do you have an actual example where this is a problem?