Review of Jesse Phillips's CSV Parser

Jesse Phillips jessekphillips+D at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 09:14:15 PDT 2011


Ary Manzana Wrote:

> I like the idea of reading a CSV into a struct, or treating all fields 
> as ints.
> 
> But, in my experience, CSVs are never perfect... because humans fill 
> them, and humans aren't perfect or don't know "Oh, of course I must fill 
> only numbers in this column, otherwise programs will explode".
> 
> So although it's a nice functionality, I think just returning everything 
> as strings is more than enough.

If you are dealing with incorrect data you must deal with it. If you expect everything to be an int, and it isn't what are you going to do? I should check how easy it is to recover from an error.


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