From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T11:36:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Q about the FasterCSV

Dave Burt [mailto:dave@burt.id.au] :

# Oh, I don't want the patch. It's a terrible idea! "foo, bar, 'baz'"
# aren't CSV, they're CASWSSV (comma and some white-space separated
# values). That's got to be a whole new library :)

as long as the values are bounded by a comma, then they are csv delimited. space is a value, right?

eg

   "foo, bar, 'baz'", foo, "bar" , foo"bar", foo'bar'

can be parsed as (by the eye as of the moment):

   ["foo, bar, 'baz'"," foo"," \"bar\" "," foo\"bar\""," foo'bar'"]

maybe, this can be a nice little rubyquiz?

not all data is perfect, that is why there are rubyists like Dave and James :)

thanks and kind regards -botp