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Bernd Eckenfels commented on CSV-272:
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A fixed-widt format has a fixed length for each field, it can have one or
multiple record types, each record describing the length of each field in
bytes, code units or codepoints.
I think this is entirely out of scope for the csv parser (however when we would
provide a fixed length or cpnpö-record or in-house parser (sap idocs also use
this format)) it would maybe be good idea to share a common retrieval interface.
Suggestion! Wont fix
> 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
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> 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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