Re: Reading CSV

[Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>]

On 4/12/2013, at 11:52 am, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

> Even for such a simple format [1] I would still use LPeg since (to me)
> it makes the parsing code much easier to follow and modify if need be

I’m absolutely a fan of LPeg.  Just happened to do something different this time.  I think I still prefer that my code is dependency-free, but I agree it’s a pretty marginal trade-off.

> (did you realize you have to handle double quotes in a quoted string?).

Yep!

>> Sorry for not being clear initially: I know that the issues I mentioned
>> are simple to overcome and I have working code.  Should I abandon that and
>> adopt an existing solution, improve an existing solution, publish my own
>> solution or just go back to my cave? 
> 
> That, I can't tell you.  Working code trumps theoretical code any day.

I think I’ve learned that there’s no obvious best CSV reader that I’ve missed, so I will tidy my code up, push it out into the world and then we can have a laugh at it, plan a namespace or randomly generated UUID and brutally decide on an interface.