Review of Jesse Phillips's CSV Parser

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 01:28:07 Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:21:02 +0200, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:18:27 +0300, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Docs:
> >> http://nascent.freeshell.org/programming/D/doc/phobos/std_csv.html
> > 
> > Checked the new docs today. If I'm reading them right, the top example
> > prints:
> > 
> > "Fred works as a Fly and earns $4 per year"
> > 
> > Is this a pop culture reference I'm not catching?
> 
> No, not that I know of. Should it be? Should I go with a more
> professional like example?
> 
> > An idea I had the other day was to include convenience presets for the
> > more common flavours of CSV formats, e.g.: csvText!CSVFormat_Excel(...)
> 
> Well if Excel actually conforms to what it claims:
> 
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-formatting-and-
> features-that-are-not-transferred-to-other-file-formats-HP010014105.aspx?
> CTT=5&origin=HP010099725#BM4
> 
> Which I doubt it does, then my parser already defaults to being able to
> read such formats. In my experience Excel sucks at CSV and follows no
> rules.

As I recall, part of the problem is that Excel's behavior with regards to CSV 
is locale-dependent.

- Jonathan M Davis