Parsing CSV files

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj@microsoft.com
Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:14:37 +0100


| > 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...
|=20
| What haskell needs is something along the lines of CPAN. Contributed
modules
| of various utility. Not part of the base libraries, but never-the-less
useful
| and maybe needed for your project.

There's a lot of activity on this front on the libraries mailing list
(libraries@haskell.org).=20
http://haskell.org/hawiki/LibraryInfrastructure

Simon