Re: [Gawkextlib-developer] CSV parsing

[Manuel C. <mco...@gm...>]

Forgot to ask. Where is the bwk-awk code with the CSV patch?

Thanks.

El 12/3/23 a las 23:27, Manuel Collado escribió:
> El 12/3/23 a las 21:18, Jürgen Kahrs via Gawkextlib-developer escribió:
>> Hello,
>> Kernighan has commented on the quality of his CSV source code change.
>> Look at the very last sentence of the article.
>>
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/unix-legend-who-owes-us-nothing-keeps-fixing-foundational-awk-code/
>>    Kernighan, now 80, offhandedly mentions in the interview  that
>>    he has also patched something "quick and dirty" to let AWK handle 
>> CSV files.
> 
> Interesting. So there is hope about suggesting him a "quick but not 
> dirty" approach.
> 
> Will elaborate on that. In brief: think of CSV as just an external 
> import format. Discarded after importing data.
> 
>>
>> The interview is now 6 months old, maybe he has worked
>> a bit on his original idea. But I doubt that he has.
>> Unicode changes seemed to be much more important for him.
> 

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