On 12 March 2012 17:38, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 12/03/2012 18:31, Benedikt Ritter a écrit : > > >> I'm not sure if I got you right. You have to pass a CSVFormat if you >> want to construct a CSVLexer(), so we could use the lexer's internal >> CSVformat. > > > Yes that's what I understood, when I mention the parser it includes the > lexer as well. > > I think the parser should look for any line separator and not only the one > defined in the format. Otherwise the user will have to know in advance the > line separator of the input files, and that's not always possible.
Not sure I follow that. The user must know the field separator and quote character in advance; surely they need to know the line-separator also? The only possible ambiguity is whether the file uses CR, LF, or CRLF. > Emmanuel Bourg > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
