On 19:05 Wed 25 May , James Sangster wrote: > I was looking to doing CSV parsing using regular expressions, but I came > across one post in a newsgroup where it was stated that regular expressions > themselves couldn't handle it alone. Because the environment I was working > with had restricted regular expression capabilities and no third party > package integration capabilities, I instead just went for the brute force > method of parsing character for character on each line and using a state > machine. > > It seems to work very well, but the performance could be a little better.
Would the jakarta community welcome a CSV parsing/writing module for commons? I'd be happy to work on it, no doubt I would start down a similar path of having to look at each character and track the state of what is a field and what isn't. -- Don Seiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFC87F041 Fingerprint: 0B56 50D5 E91E 4D4C 83B7 207C 76AC 5DA2 FC87 F041
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