Parsing CSV files

[Graham Klyne]

At 11:40 29/07/03 -0700, John Meacham wrote:
>Hey, I wrote a CSV parser too. seeing as how this seems like a common
>thing (having 3 independent implementations at least), perhaps it
>belongs in libraries somewhere? some area dedicated to useful little
>grammers would be handy. csv, c header files, .x (rpcgen), various
>preference file formats, etc...

Maybe the approach to standard library should be via a "cookbook" of some kind?

I tend to find that with functions like reading CSV, different applications 
have slightly different requirements, so it doesn't always help to have a 
one-size-fits-all function in the library, at least until the range of 
variations is well understood.

Which is all by way of agreeing with your second suggestion.

#g


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