Re: question about linker

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

[...]

Do you use a formal grammar when parsing a CSV file, or something
equally trivial?

I wouldn't call CSV trivial, and yes, I'd want to have a precise
specification of the format in front of me if I wanted to implement
it.  RFC 4180 seems to be the closest thing we have to a standard,
but it's not universally followed.

I don't parse csv files, there are dozens of tools already
available to perform that action for me with no need
to reinvent the wheel.
>
for example, cvstool comes with most linux distributions:
>
https://github.com/maroofi/csvtool

The csvtool that's available for most Linux distributions isn't
that one.  It's another tool of the same name, implemented in OCaml,
with a completely different user interface.  I don't know whether
they implement the same CSV specification.

https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-csv

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