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Sebb commented on CSV-84:
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At present (r1304503), the comment introducer is not recognised whilst
processing a value.
It is only recognised at the start of a value.
This seems wrong, as it makes it impossible to add a trailing comment to the
end of a record without adding a preceeding delimiter. This is not consistent,
see below:
{code}
# No comment following, 4 values found
a,b,c,d<EOL>
d,e,f,g# comment treated as part of 4th value<EOL>
h,i,j,k,# this will be recognised as a comment following 4 fields<EOL>
l,m,n,o,<EOL>
# previous line should have 5 fields but actually gets merged to previous line.
{code}
Comments currently only work correctly at the start of a record.
> Comment handling
> ----------------
>
> Key: CSV-84
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-84
> Project: Commons CSV
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Sebb
>
> Comment handling is not currently fully documented / tested.
> There are several possible situations:
> 1) trailing comment following one or more values
> 2) comment marker starts in the first column
> 3) comment marker starts in the first non-whitespace column
> How should these be handled?
> 1) The trailing comment should be ignored
> 2) Entire line should be ignored, i.e. don't treat it as a blank line
> 3) This is trickier: if whitespace is being trimmed, treat as 2, else treat
> as 1, i.e. there is a single value containing whitespace
> It might also be useful to consider returning comments to the application
> program as part of CSVRecord.
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