RE: Reading CSV

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Geoff Leyland
> Sent: woensdag 4 december 2013 17:48
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: Reading CSV
> 
> On 5/12/2013, at 1:46 am, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> 
> > That would still be expected behaviour, multiple spaces or multiple
> commas should not make a difference when parsing. Right?
> 
> Well, I guess it depends on what you're parsing.  Excel has an option to
> treat multiple delimiters as one, and I can imagine files where the
> columns are "manually" lined up:
> 
> street           nr zip   city
> "Oneway Street"   1       Toontown

Well, that would be called 'fixed-width', not CSV.

> 
> (I can't think how you'd work out that "zip" was missing here).  In any
> case, it doesn't support that.  Sorry if the README was not clear.  I'll
> have a go at rewording it.

Well if its related to 'fixed-width', just deleting the issue will do then :)

Thijs