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by greenshackle2 834 days ago
Can you parse this 2-row CSV:

SomeCommas,MoreCommas,OnlyOneComma,ALotOfCommas

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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euroderf 834 days ago
Pathological cases are never difficult to find for any app.
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greenshackle2 834 days ago
Wrong. Consider the standard backslash escape: represent literal comma as "\,", and literal backslash as "\\". Backslashes are otherwise forbidden.

It will be difficult to find pathological cases for this grammar, because they don't exist.

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euroderf 833 days ago
Well okay, but there's an outer circle of Hell where people write code to manipulate Windows filepaths.
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