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Jason Steenstra-Pickens commented on CSV-155:
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Basically I have a String that contains CSV with a header row. I want to use
the CSVParser to read the header row so that I can validate that the headers
match what is expected. I then need to get the rest of the CSV without the
first header row but still as a String (rather than a List of CSVRecord
objects).
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> Key: CSV-155
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-155
> Project: Commons CSV
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Parser
> Affects Versions: 1.1
> Reporter: Jason Steenstra-Pickens
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> I have the requirement where I need to parse the headers of a CSV string so
> that I can validate them and then remove those headers.
> The problem is that the CSVParser creates an internal ExtendedBufferedReader
> from the given reader (which in my case is a StringReader). Reading the first
> record will read and buffer additional records so if I then try and read
> directly from the StringReader it does not return anything.
> To solve this I need to be able to do one of the following:
> # pass in my own ExtendedBufferedReader (so would need to be made public)
> # have a new getter method to be able to retrieve the internal
> ExtendedBufferedReader (or as a BufferedReader, either will do)
> # have a new method on the CSVParser to be able to retrieve the remaining raw
> records.
> The current workaround is to read all the records and then write all the
> records except the first back out to a StringWriter but this is a lot of
> unnecessary work and code. This doesn't really work since it reader and
> writing it back out has a very high chance of modifying the quotes, escapes,
> whitespace etc.
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