Re: Parsing CSV files

perhaps something like 'vim.sf.net's script section. where anyone can post a script (or haskell file). and everyone can immediatly see and download it. the good ones filter to the top, and since the individual files don't need to be part of a larger library infrastructure there is much more capability for ad hoc code reuse... John On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:33:07PM +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:

At 11:40 29/07/03 -0700, John Meacham wrote:

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Hey, I wrote a CSV parser too. seeing as how this seems like a common thing (having 3 independent implementations at least), perhaps it belongs in libraries somewhere? some area dedicated to useful little grammers would be handy. csv, c header files, .x (rpcgen), various preference file formats, etc...

Maybe the approach to standard library should be via a "cookbook" of some kind?

I tend to find that with functions like reading CSV, different applications have slightly different requirements, so it doesn't always help to have a one-size-fits-all function in the library, at least until the range of variations is well understood.

Which is all by way of agreeing with your second suggestion.

#g

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