On Jun 17, 2007, at 14:04 , Pete Kazmier wrote:
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Jun 15, 2007, at 18:37 , Jason Dagit wrote:
I love to see people using Haskell, especially professionally, but I
have to wonder if the real tool for this job is sed? :-)
Actually, while sed could do that, it'd be a nightmare. You really
want a parser to deal with general CSV like this, and while you can
write parsers in sed, you *really* don't want to. :)
sed ':a /,$/!{N;s/\n//;ba}' somefile.csv
If it's simple enough, sure. If you get into dealing with quoting,
it gets a lot more complex in a hurry.
Of course, given that this is from Oracle, it *probably* doesn't.
(But as a sysadmin and ex-dba, "probably" is worrisome....)
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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