24 Aug
2006
24 Aug
'06
6:24 a.m.
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Robert Dockins wrote:
On Aug 23, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
L.S.,
Reading and writing a comma seperated datafile doesn't have to be that complicated; the following is an easy way to read a CSV file into a list of tuples and display the list on screen:
"For every complex problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat, and wrong." -- HL Mencken
Although it seems straightforward at first, CSV suffers from text escaping complexities, just as does every other general purpose plain-text encoding. Most notably, a newline embedded inside double quotes does not end a record.
I also think that quotes within quotes are represented by "" rather than \" in CSV.