Mercury-CSV

mercury_csv is a Mercury library for reading CSV data from character streams.

Features

• follows RFC 4180 where possible
• can optionally trim whitespace from fields
• handles CRLF line endings
• allows blank fields
• supports reading fields either as strings (raw) or as Mercury standard library types (typed).
• the "typed" interface allows an arbitrary number of actions (e.g. transformations, validity checks etc) to be performed on each field after it is read.
• allows limits to be imposed on number of characters in a field and the number of fields in a record
• supports the presence of an optional header record
• field delimiter character can be selected by the user
• can optionally ignore blank lines
• can optionally ignore trailing fields

License

mercury_csv is licensed under a simple 2-clause BSD style license. See the file COPYING for details.

Installation

Check the values in the file Make.options to see if they agree with your system, then do:

$ make install

You can also override values in Make.options on the command line, for example

$ make INSTALL_PREFIX=/foo/bar install

causes the library to be installed in the directory /foo/bar.

Testing

To run the regression test suite, do:

$ make runtests

TODO

• write some samples
• write some more documentation
• support CSV writers as well as readers

Mercury 22.01.X Compatibility

The code on the master branch is not compatible with Mercury 22.01.X. If you require a version of mercury_csv that works with Mercury 22.01.X, then checkout the mercury_22_01 branch.

Mercury 20.06.X Compatibility

The code on the master branch is not compatible with Mercury 20.06.X. If you require a version of mercury_csv that works with Mercury 20.06.X, then checkout the mercury_20_06 branch.

Mercury 20.01.X Compatibility

The code on the master branch is not compatible with Mercury 20.01.X. If you require a version of mercury_csv that works with Mercury 20.01.X, then checkout the mercury_20_01 branch.

Author

Julien Fischer juliensf@gmail.com