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> Most CSV libraries are extremely buggy Examples? (Of libraries and bugs)

• VWWHFSfQ 6y ago
  op is being very hyperbolic. most widely used and supported csv libraries are not nearly as deficient as op claims.
• maerF0x0 6y ago
  golang builtin doesnt handle UTF BOM well . have to preprocess the io.Reader
  • slrz 6y ago
    Seems reasonable to me: this way, you don't have to duplicate the BOM stripping in the decoders of every single format you want to support. It's also more general as there are other commonly-needed transformations that have an even weaker case for explicit support in the CSV library (charset conversion, dropping other bogus bytes, ...).
    • maerF0x0 6y ago
      it's a stark difference compared to, say, https://www.papaparse.com/ https://www.papaparse.com/ in javascript which pretty much does anything it can to parse a file