[Csv] What's our status?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Cliff> Okay, banging my head against a wall here.  Consider this "CSV"
    Cliff> file:

    Cliff> all
    Cliff> work
    Cliff> and
    Cliff> no
    Cliff> play
    Cliff> makes
    Cliff> jack
    Cliff> a
    Cliff> dull
    Cliff> boy

Is there something that suggests a sniffer can't fail to decide/guess?

    Cliff> OTOH, I personally don't have a big problem with the constraints
    Cliff> [just a small one].  The DSV sniffers have been used by a lot of
    Cliff> people without complaint and they required fixed column widths
    Cliff> regardless of whether there was a quotechar or not and we're
    Cliff> actually doing a bit better than that right now.

So maybe we make constant number of columns a constraint?

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