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Sebb commented on CSV-54:
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Definitely better to drop the separate leading/trailing space options.
However, I think "interleavedSpacesIgnored" should apply for both quoted and
unquoted values.
As far as I can tell, that is the expectation in the CSV format specs I've seen.
The "trimmedSpaces" setting would then be identical to
"interleavedSpacesIgnored" for unquoted values.
For quoted values it would also trim the enclosed value; not sure that's
particularly useful to provide as part of CSV.
It's easy enough for the application to trim the fields, so I'm not sure the
setting is necessary.
Seems like it is straying away from the basic purpose of CSV.
However, if/when CSV is updated support creating Java Beans, value trimming
would be much more appropriate there, as it would be on a per-column basis.
Let's keep the initial parsing simple.
> Confusing semantic of the ignore leading/trailing spaces parameters
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>
> Key: CSV-54
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-54
> Project: Commons CSV
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Parser
> Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
> Fix For: 1.0
>
>
> {{CSVFormat}} has two parameters to control how the leading and trailing
> spaces around values are handled, but the actual behavior depends on the
> value being enclosed in quotes or not.
> If the value is not enclosed in quotes, setting
> {{leading/trailingSpacesIgnored}} to {{true}} will left or right trim the
> value. For example with this input (using the default format):
> {code}a, b ,c{code}
> the second value will be equal to {{'b'}}.
> But if the value is enclosed into quotes, the value is no longer trimmed:
> {code}a," b ",c{code}
> this will give {{' b '}}.
> With quoted values the parser actually ignores the spaces between the
> delimiter and the quote. Thus with this input:
> {code}a, " b " ,c{code}
> The value returned is {{' b '}}.
> If {{leading/trailingSpacesIgnored}} is set to {{false}}, we get instead {{'
> " b " '}} which is consistent with RFC 4180.
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