[Csv] What's our status?

[Andrew McNamara]

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

That would be better than guessing wrong, I think.

>    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?

Or even a hint. Maybe the user of the module can provide some "educated
guesses" as to the nature of the file.

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
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