Wish Improved parsing in CSV Parser

[JdV]

Hello

The CSV parser works brilliantly but as the library documentation (here) mentions not all CSV files are 100% formatted correctly.

To illustrate this I have created the attached program.

The 'good' CSV string has 3 columns in row 1 and 2. This processes OK.
The 'bad' CSV string has 3 columns in row 1 but 4 rows in row 2. This causes the app to crash.

It would be good if the CSV parser library had a function that could scan the input and return whether it's consistent or not, before attempting to process it.

Regards

Joe

 

[Erel]

The 'bad' CSV string has 3 columns in row 1 but 4 rows in row 2. This causes the app to crash.

This is good. It means that you can wrap it with Try / Catch and catch this error. This is the standard way to handle errors.

 

[JdV]

Fair enough.

Thanks for the reply.