On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Peter Waller <pe...@scraperwiki.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, we already tried this, sed, and writing our own translation > program in C. > The other problem is that it adds \r in front of *ever* \n, including those that are part of data and which are not record separators. I'm working on a patch for the sqlite3.exe now.... > > In the best case it doubled (!) the CPU-time usage and ate more than one > core at a time, which isn't acceptable in our environment. Making the > change in place in the sqlite source has no observable impact. > > Most other programs and APIs which generate or read CSVs that we have seen > treat them correctly according to the standard, regardless of platform. > > I too am sad that CRLF is mandated in the specification and still in wide > use because of Windows. But the fact is that there are database import > programs which can't deal with plain LF input. Which is insane, but there > are large datasets being repeatedly imported into those programs. > > Please could you reconsider, or in the worst case could we consider a way > to make it optionally output specification-complaint output? > > Thanks, > > - Peter > > > On 24 July 2014 11:02, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Hick Gunter <h...@scigames.at> wrote: > > > > > How about piping your csv file through unix2dos? > > > > > > > Yeah. Having a unix program generate \r\n line endings just seems wrong. > > Standard or no standard. > > > > -- > > D. Richard Hipp > > d...@sqlite.org > > _______________________________________________ > > sqlite-users mailing list > > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
