Re: [bug-gawk] A CSV Standard

[Aharon Robbins]

Hello All.

Sorry for the delays in replying.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:38:10PM -0000, David Jordan wrote:
> I would be happy to volunteer to write it as I have been wanting to
> contribute to a free software project for a while and it seems a simple
> enough task (always dangerous to say).

David, that would be great. To do this fully correctly, we'd need an
input parser to find the real end of the record - that is skipping over
newlines that are embedded in double quotes, and then, *I think*, an FPAT
based solution might could handle the field splitting.

If not, I would suggest a csvsplit() function that took $0 and filled
in an array with the fields.

> Do you think it would be better off standalone or as part of gawketxtlib?  

As part of gawkextlib, please. This is easier now, as Andy pointed out.

Andy - about JSON, I'm not an expert, but it looks like it could be
easily modelled as a gawk multidimensional array, no?

Thanks!

Arnold