From: Charles Walden <crw@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T06:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a comma-separated file

My experience (at least a year ago) was that fastercsv was a great way  
to go if you had very clean files without errors, odd characters,  
etc.  Unfortunately, I had files that were a bit more problematic and  
so I ended up using a combination of either parsing it myself (split,  
regexs. etc) and catching all the errors and handling them or using  
the parse_line method in the standard csv library.
On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Avdi Grimm wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Justin To <tekmc@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> So is the fasterCSV the most effective way of parsing a comma- 
>> separated
>> file?
>
> It is the fastest and most robust way.
>
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