> From: wayne durden > > I hear your pain on the CSV issue. However, wishing it would die I think > deserves a more careful reflection. Sometimes the devil you know is worse > than the alternative...
It's only difficult to deal with CSV if you want to make a totally general importer, with no foreknowledge of the type of data the files will contain. But in most real-life situations, you'll never need to deal with a double quote or newline in the data, so using newlines to separate records, and double quotes to escape commas within records, is a perfectly workable definition of the CSV format. It would never occur to anyone to use CSV to represent records containing binary data, so it isn't much more of a restriction to rule out control characters and double quotes. Your application is a typical example; so is using CSV as an interchange format for GPS logs. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
