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Forgive me for promoting this that I wrote: csvquote: https://github.com/dbro/csvquote Especially for use with existing shell text processing tools, eg. cut, sort, wc, etc.

Yes, this is what csvquote does. It does nothing else, just this so that programs like awk, sed, cut, etc. can work properly. https://github.com/dbro/csvquote

That is correct, the data needs to be simple where the delimiter characters are never embedded inside a quoted field. I wrote a simple (and fast) utility to ensure that CSV files a…

There is a small program I wrote called csvquote[1] that can be used to sanitize input to awk so it can rely on delimiter characters (commas) to always mean delimiters. The results…

Good idea! Looks similar to something I wrote called csvquote https://github.com/dbro/csvquote , which enables awk and other command line text tools to work with CSV data that cont…

To simplify working with CSV data using command line tools, I wrote csvquote ( https://github.com/dbro/csvquote ). There are some examples on that page that show how it works with …

While not exactly what you asked for, I wrote something similar called csvquote ( https://github.com/dbro/csvquote ) which transforms "typical" CSV or TSV data to use the ASCII cha…

You might want to check out https://github.com/dbro/csvquote which helps awl and other text tools handle csv files which have quoted strings as values.

Hi- I'm curious to know what your use case is. Can you explain why substitution is not sufficient?

Here's another suggestion for the criticism section (which is a good idea for any open-minded project to include): Instead of using a separate set of tools to work with CSV data, u…

yes! https://github.com/dbro/csvquote csvquote allows UNIX tools to work properly with quoted fields that contain delimiters inside the data. It is a simple translation tool that t…

That's correct, and as you illustrate it's the possibility to have newlines and commas inside quoted fields that complicates things for grep/awk/cut/etc. So instead of making a mor…

Usually the person parsing the CSV data doesn't have control over the way the data gets written. If he did, he would probably prefer something like protocol buffers. CSV is the low…

Yes it's possible. I did this a few years ago as a learning project, and the relevant lua scripts can be seen here: https://gist.github.com/dbro/9920666 . ... but I wouldn't claim …

that's exactly what https://github.com/dbro/csvquote does for commas and newlines both.

Thanks for bringing up csvquote. I wrote it last year, and am happy to hear that other people find it useful. It is indeed a simple state machine (see https://github.com/dbro/csvqu…

Thanks very much! You just made my day!

I did, too. Different UI, though. See http://www.domainjig.com

Nicely done. Here's a similar site I made previously: http://www.domainjig.com Beyond the shameless self-promotion I found that getting people to use it would take a lot of work, w…

For those interested in giving this a try, here are a few additional suggestions from my recent experience. There are less expensive alternatives to Linode. I switched to Loose Foo…

I wonder what happens in the RethinkDB office on Monday evenings? https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/graphs/punch-card

Depending on what you're planning to use it for, there are some less expensive devices that are worth considering, eg. for about $90 shipped to the US http://www.aliexpress.com/pro…

Nice. I did too: https://github.com/dbro/muss . It's a shell script that coordinates mpc and dmenu. It's got two modes of operation, one for interactive browsing and another for a …

not likely. see http://siteanalytics.compete.com/github.com/ and http://www.google.com/trends?q=git%2C+mercurial%2C+svn%2C+gi...