From: Alan Munn <amunn@...>
Date: 2009-09-14T09:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: normalizing newlines

In article 
<31a130740909131644s7bd6f80flbfee4c361073252d@mail.gmail.com>,
 Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:

> 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.

I see. I think that for what its intended use will be, the split should 
work fine (and certainly in testing hasn't failed yet.)  If I begin 
getting reports of failure on more complicated data I may need to 
rethink things.

Thanks for you comments.

Alan