RE: Reading CSV
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- Subject: RE: Reading CSV
- From: Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 19:59:38 +0000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Geoff Leyland
> Sent: woensdag 4 december 2013 17:48
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: Reading CSV
>
> On 5/12/2013, at 1:46 am, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
>
> > That would still be expected behaviour, multiple spaces or multiple
> commas should not make a difference when parsing. Right?
>
> Well, I guess it depends on what you're parsing. Excel has an option to
> treat multiple delimiters as one, and I can imagine files where the
> columns are "manually" lined up:
>
> street nr zip city
> "Oneway Street" 1 Toontown
Well, that would be called 'fixed-width', not CSV.
>
> (I can't think how you'd work out that "zip" was missing here). In any
> case, it doesn't support that. Sorry if the README was not clear. I'll
> have a go at rewording it.
Well if its related to 'fixed-width', just deleting the issue will do then :)
Thijs
- References:
- Reading CSV, Geoff Leyland
- Re: Reading CSV, Sean Conner
- Re: Reading CSV, Geoff Leyland
- Re: Reading CSV, Sean Conner
- Re: Reading CSV, Geoff Leyland
- Re: Reading CSV, Jorge
- Re: Reading CSV, Claire Lewis
- Re: Reading CSV, Geoff Leyland
- RE: Reading CSV, Thijs Schreijer
- RE: Reading CSV, Elias Barrionovo
- RE: Reading CSV, Thijs Schreijer
- Re: Reading CSV, Geoff Leyland