[Haskell-cafe] Sneaking haskell in the workplace -- cleaning csv files

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 15, 2007, at 18:37 , Jason Dagit wrote:

> I love to see people using Haskell, especially professionally, but I
> have to wonder if the real tool for this job is sed? :-)

Actually, while sed could do that, it'd be a nightmare.  You really  
want a parser to deal with general CSV like this, and while you can  
write parsers in sed, you *really* don't want to.  :)

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