Row mismatch in CSV

[dennis luehring]

Am 10.01.2012 06:08, schrieb Jesse Phillips:
> I'm adding output to the std.csv module that will be available in
> the next release and I'm hoping I can get an opinion on this.
>
> The last stated rule for CSV is:
>
> Each record should contain the same number of fields (not
> enforced)
>
> I didn't enforce this as I don't see it likely to be indicating
> an error. But I have found that not following this and parsing
> with a struct will cause incorrect results.
>
> one,two
> three
> four
>
> Will parse as
>
> one,two
> three,two
> four,two
>
> So I can easily fix this by setting my internal struct with
> .init. I like this.
>
> A goal I am going for with csvWriter is, what goes in comes out.
> But in this case your output would be
>
> one,two
> three,
> four,
>
> Which I like as it is correct, but it isn't the original input.
> So the only why to achieve these goals together is to not allow
> the initial invalid input... Thoughts?

do not allow invalid input - maybe a helper function to detect, but no
silent "repair" or internal "allow-invalid" stuff - i would get harder 
to get the lib right