[Haskell-cafe] Re: Sneaking haskell in the workplace -- cleaning csv files

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes:

On Jun 15, 2007, at 18:37 , Jason Dagit wrote:

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I love to see people using Haskell, especially professionally, but I have to wonder if the real tool for this job is sed? :-)

Actually, while sed could do that, it'd be a nightmare. You really want a parser to deal with general CSV like this, and while you can write parsers in sed, you *really* don't want to. :)

sed ':a /,$/!{N;s/\n//;ba}' somefile.csv