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David Szigecsan commented on CSV-272:
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I checked the file at linked gist and I have some problems understanding what
would be the expectation.
# I can't see any delimiter (I mean there are spaces, but their count is
different in each cell)
# If I assume the whitespace is the delimiter, then what about "Product 1"?
Does it count as one ("Product 1") or two ("Product" and "1")?
# What do you mean about "fixed-width"? Every cell has the same amount of
characters? What about "Pa wafer" following more space than the line starting
"1"?
The only logic I could use is when there is one single whitespace, that is part
of the data, but more consecutive whitespaces are delimiter.
For me, it does not seem like a CSV or its alternatives (with a tab or
anything). Especially after checking the "test wafer" followed by 15 spaces.
Tabs usually represent 4 or 8 spaces, not 15.
> Support fixed-width format
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>
> Key: CSV-272
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-272
> Project: Commons CSV
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Parser
> Affects Versions: 1.8
> Reporter: Holger Brandl
> Priority: Major
>
> Although not strictly a delimiter format, fixed-width tables are still very
> common. So it would be great if commons-csv would support fixed-width via a
> dedicated format.
> Since jira does not render fixed-delim content correctly, I've deposited an
> example under
> https://gist.github.com/holgerbrandl/26298ae77d53b3393d9d22c73249ab72
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