Re: [boost] LIB CSV

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On 4 Aug 2017, at 13:41, Klaim - Joël Lamotte via Boost wrote:

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On 4 August 2017 at 12:56, Greger via Boost wrote:

During some time I have created this CSV library:

<a href="http://www.multi.fi/~ghaga/libcsv/html/index.html">htt p://www.multi.fi/~ghaga/libcsv/html/index.html</a>

(For processing of CSV tables)

any use?good?bad?

Hi, a few quick remarks:

- unfortunately there is no standard CSV format,

There is an RFC though https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 Unfortunately, iirc, there is a slight difference between this RFC and the standard implied by the hugely used Microsoft Excel. If this is (still) true, a library that could paper over the differences could be useful for conversions. Python's CSV module takes a "dialect" parameter to do this.