From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2009-09-14T08:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: normalizing newlines

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Alan Munn <amunn@msu.edu> wrote:

> 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.

Problem is not the size of the data. CSV is brittle, record
separators, field separators, quoting, escaping. With a library you
may write about the same amount of code AND have a robust script for
the same price.

If the data is known and dead simple a split would do though.