From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T06:49:12+09:00
Subject: Re: FasterCSV: preserving quoted strings

On Feb 26, 2:08 pm, James Gray <ja...@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
> Well, then you don't really want a CSV parser.
>
> Quotes in CSV data are used to indicate field grouping.  In other  
> words, they are metadata about the content and it doesn't make sense  
> for a parser to return those to you.  It's like how an XML parser  
> wouldn't give you the equals sign used to set a tag attribute.

Ah, OK.  That clears things up.

Thanks,
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