On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I did not do this one as is it seems RFC4180 defines CR+LF as the record > > separator as noted in the Javadoc for > > org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat.DEFAULT. > > > > That's where the name of this component gets confusing to me. Since > it's called "CSV", it would make sense that we follow RFC 4180, which > defines the standard for comma-separated value files and thus the > default record separator would be CRLF. However, we are allowing > users to define whatever format they want using properties of the > CSVFormat class (of course, if you use delimiter != ',', then it's not > really CSV). So, what's the intent? This is more of a > delimited-record format parser/writer component which supports CSV. > Thus, it is not really very well-named. > Why not rename DEFAULT to RFC418? Gary > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
