[Csv] What's our status?

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:15, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     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?

No, it's just unfortunate that what appears to be the simple cases is
where it fails.

> 
>     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?

Number of columns or quoted.  But perhaps that's confusing?

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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