On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Robert Dockins wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > > > > > L.S., > > > > Reading and writing a comma seperated datafile doesn't have to be that > > complicated; the following is an easy way to read a CSV file into a list of > > tuples and display the list on screen: > > "For every complex problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat, and > wrong." -- HL Mencken > > > Although it seems straightforward at first, CSV suffers from text escaping > complexities, just as does every other general purpose plain-text encoding. > Most notably, a newline embedded inside double quotes does not end a record.
I also think that quotes within quotes are represented by "" rather than \" in CSV. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
