Vladimir Panteleev Wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:18:27 +0300, dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Docs:
> > http://nascent.freeshell.org/programming/D/doc/phobos/std_csv.html
>
> Documentation should have examples of basic usage at the top. It should be
> possible to figure out how to use a CSV parser within 10 seconds of
> looking at the docs.
Sounds good. What kind of example should be first? Maybe something that just
gives you an itterable:
auto records = csvText(text);
> It looks like this is only a CSV parser, but not a CSV formatter? That's
> pretty weird. It'd be like std.xml or std.json only having reading
> functionality.
I have done quite a bit of CSV output and none of them have been the same. The
only similarity is surrounding with quotes and escaping quotes.
"\"" ~ text.replace("\"", "\"\"") ~ "\""
The problem is that how your data is stored and where it needs to go is
different for each app. I don't see a reason to provide a output function where
one must convert their data into a range of struct and specify an output range,
when that conversion is the hard part.
I would consider a function that does escaping/quoting only if the element
needs it. But such a function couldn't work on an Input Range.
