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by mattmanser 3447 days ago
Your edit is delightful.

"No, honest guys, I knew CSV was more complicated. I just didn't need to make my code safe."

Here's a csv parser in Erlang that actually attempts all that trivial stuff:

https://github.com/rcouch/ecsv/blob/master/src/ecsv_parser.e...

That's a lot more code than yours. And the notes even say it's not tolerant of badly formed CSVs.

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I submitted that edit before the post had any replies.

Also, I did try to make clear that the given code was created 'for a specific use case in which I knew' that the format of the input files was tightly defined.