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Nate Clark commented on ARROW-12661:
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Sorry, I wrote this in the PR first, so repeating it here.
Is the preferred solution the current implementation of
{{ReadOptions::skip_rows_after_header or the more flexible approach of turning
skip_rows into a vector of indexes to skip. While the first does fulfill the
original request of this ticket I do like the flexibility offered by the row
ranges to skip. If the ranges is preferred I think it makes sense for me to
work on ARROW-12675 so that the absolute row is known throughout the parser
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> [C++] CSV add skip rows after column names
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> Key: ARROW-12661
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12661
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Nate Clark
> Priority: Major
> Labels: csv, pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 0.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Some programs generate csv files with additional descriptive information
> about the columns on a row after the names. For files like this it would be
> nice to have an option which reads the first row as column names and then can
> skip those rows after the names.
> This could probably be implemented easily as either another option parallel
> ReadOptions::skip_rows or a boolean which indicates if skipping should occur
> before or after the column names are read.
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