From: Alan Munn <amunn@...>
Date: 2009-09-14T08:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: normalizing newlines

In article 
<31a130740909131235td77a0bcq411701614be25ce7@mail.gmail.com>,
 Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Alan Munn <amunn@msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean. The script takes copied cells
> > in csv format and massages them into different LaTeX table styles for
> > insertion into a LaTeX document.  I first split the lines and then use
> > csv methods to do the rest.
> 
> I mean, do you have the entire CSV in memory? I guess the split means
> you do. In that case you could split with a regexp like this:
> 
>     lines = csv.split(/[\015\012]+/)
> 
> The exact regexp depends on what you need. That one prevents blank
> items in lines in particular, may do.

Yes, this will do what I want.
> 
> That said, I'd normally use a CSV library to handle the input.

Well the basic idea is to simply allow cut and paste functionality from 
a spreadsheet to a LaTeX document, so I'm never dealing with huge 
amounts of data generally.

Thanks for the help.

Alan