Hi David, Richard et al. I hear your pain on the CSV issue. However, wishing it would die I think deserves a more careful reflection. Sometimes the devil you know is worse than the alternative...
I use RunRev almost exclusively for parsing and processing datasets for active traders. CSV is one of the few remaining source formats that can be easily resolved. I use the flag method to handle quotes in the dataset... The other alternatives my clients can provide are far more problematic ([XML parsing - in theory good, in practice on large datasets there is almost always some breakage in the dataset or the time to handle a large dataset is exponentially greater than plain CSV ] [Excel - now virtually impossible to deal with without a manual intervention and conversion]) So yes, CSV has it's problems. Pipe delimited would suit me better. But a simple line based ordered dataset has proven in practice to be much more usable and quicker to handle than fancier solutions... Don't wish a CSV death on me please :) Wayne On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:51 PM, David Coker <davidoco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Richard Gaskin > <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > <rant> > CSV must die. > > Please help it die: never write CSV exporters. > </rant> > > After my last foray into the world of CSV and the *many* problems I > ran into, I decided to take Richard's little rant a step further... > > ...Not only will I not ever write a CSV exporter, but I will no longer > attempt to support CSV, even as an import option for anything I build. > > That policy may make a few folks unhappy and/or possibly cost me a few > sales should I go that route, but with certainty, it will not > perpetuate the problem from either end in the future. > > I think I'd prefer the competition (if any), to have all of those > support issues they want. ;-) > > Regards, > David C. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution