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Sebb commented on CSV-84:
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I don't know if there are formats with inline comments.
The code currently recognises comments at the start of a value as well as at
the start of a record.
This behaviour may be unintentional.
I agree that empty lines are generally not needed, but a comment line may not
be useless.
> Comment handling
> ----------------
>
> Key: CSV-84
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-84
> Project: Commons CSV
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Sebb
>
> Comment handling is not currently fully documented / tested.
> There are several possible situations:
> 1) trailing comment following one or more values
> 2) comment marker starts in the first column
> 3) comment marker starts in the first non-whitespace column
> How should these be handled?
> 1) The trailing comment should be ignored
> 2) Entire line should be ignored, i.e. don't treat it as a blank line
> 3) This is trickier: if whitespace is being trimmed, treat as 2, else treat
> as 1, i.e. there is a single value containing whitespace
> It might also be useful to consider returning comments to the application
> program as part of CSVRecord.
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