I have a handy script that can handle that sort of input with extra spaces (With the --strip option), and other stuff that csv .import doesn't always deal well with:
https://github.com/shawnw/useful_sqlite_extensions/tree/master/tools On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 6:14 AM Faheem Mitha <fah...@faheem.info> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm seeing the same bug reported here, in an issue from 2009, supposedly > fixed in 2014. > > https://www.sqlite.org/src/tktview?name=c25aab7e7e with the title: > The ".import" command does not parse CSV correctly. > > I'm using Debian buster, with SQLite version 3.27.2-2. > > Here is a simple reproduction recipe. Consider the following simple CSV > file. > > ####################### > comma.csv > ####################### > somestuff, "some,stuff" > > Then one just needs to do > > sqlite3 comma.db 'create table comma(foo, bar);' '.mode csv' '.import > comma.csv comma' '.exit' > > Which gives the error message: > > expected 2 columns but found 3 - extras ignored. > > As mentioned in that ticket, this is per the > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 standard. > > Pandas handles this case fine. I've not checked R. > > Should I attempt to reopen that ticket? > > Regards, Faheem > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
