[FEATURE] CSV

[Jason2605]

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

Add the ability to parse CSVs

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[briandowns]

Do you want this in Dictu or C? If Dictu, I have:

// Module csv provides functions to read and write data in CSV format.

// Opts requires 1 argument, the path of the file to be parsed. 2 other
// optional arguments are available. firstLineHeader (default: true) indicates
// whether or not the first line of the file is a header, and delimiter 
// (default: ",") which indicates the record delimiter.
class Opts {
    init(var path,
        var firstLineHeader=false,
        var delimiter=",",
        var commentCharacter="#",
        var startLine = 0) {}
}

// Parser opens the file in the given path, parses each line and record, and
// saves them to a list and returns it.
class Parser {
    private columnCount;

    init(var opts) {
        this.opts = opts;
    }

    parse() {
        if (this.opts.delimiter == this.opts.commentCharacter) {
            return Error("delimiter and comment character aren't allowed to be the same");
        }

        var data = [];

        with(this.opts.path, "r") {
            var line;
            var lineNum = 0;

            while((line = file.readLine()) != nil) {
                lineNum += 1;

                if (lineNum == 1 and this.opts.firstLineHeader) {
                    continue;
                }

                if (line.startsWith(this.opts.commentCharacter)) {
                    continue;
                }

                var record = line.split(this.opts.delimiter);
                this.columnCount = record.len();

                for (var i = this.opts.startLine; i < record.len(); i += 1) {
                    record[i] = record[i].strip();
                }

                data.push(record);
            }
        }

        return Success(data);
    }

    // write
    write(data) {
        if (data == "") {
            return Error("given data empty");
        }

        with(this.opts.path, "w") {

        }

        return Success(nil);
    }

    // writeAll
    writeAll(data) {
        if (data.len() == 0) {
            return Error("given data empty");
        }

        with(this.opts.path, "w") {

        }

        return Success(nil);
    }

    getColumnCount() {
        return this.columnCount;
    }
}

[Jason2605]

Oh nice!! I wouldn’t be against to the parser for this being in Dictu