text based file formats

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On Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 19:46:36 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 00:40:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 04:16:57PM -0800, Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>> On 12/19/2022 4:35 AM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
>>> > On Monday, 19 December 2022 at 09:55:47 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> > wrote:
>>> > > Curious why CSV isn't in the list.
>>> > 
>>> > Maybe std.csv is already good enough?
>>> 
>>> LOL, learn something every day! I've even written my own, but 
>>> it isn't very good.
>>
>> There's also my little experimental csv parser that was 
>> designed to be as fast as possible:
>>
>> 	https://github.com/quickfur/fastcsv
>>
>> However, it can only handle input that fits in memory (using 
>> std.mmfile is one possible workaround), has a static limit on 
>> field sizes, and does not do validation.
>>
>>
>> T
>
> We use this at work with some light tweaks, it’s done a lot 
> work 🙂

It has already been replaced with 
[mir.csv](https://github.com/libmir/mir-ion/blob/master/source/mir/csv.d). Mir is faster, SIMD accelerated, and supports numbers and timestamp recognition.