Review of Jesse Phillips's CSV Parser

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:19:44 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Saturday, October 29, 2011 22:33:30 Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> > On 10/28/2011 6:18 AM, dsimcha wrote:
>> > First off, mucho thanks to Jesse for writing this. It's an important
>> > module for Phobos.
>> 
>> Thank you. Fun fact, many popular languages don't include a CSV parser,
>> C# and Java being notable ones (or at least I haven't found it).
> 
> CSV parser libraries exist for Java (IIRC Apache has one), but there
> definitely isn't one in Java's standard library. CSV parsers are not the
> sort of thing that's generally found in a standard library from what
> I've seen. So, having one will make us abnormal (albeit in a good way).
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

That is all I meant by it. A CSV parser does exist for every language, 
but none come packaged with the language. C# even chose not to include an 
ini so people would use XML. It really is sad that instead of something 
solid they go the way of "discouraging."