http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html paragraph titled DSV style. (Yeah esr, not

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html paragraph titled DSV style. (Yeah esr, not a fan, whatever...) Csv sucks no matter what, there is no one csv spec. Then even if you assume the file is "MS Excel style csv" you can't validate it conforms. There's a bunch of things the libraries do that cope with at least some of it that you will not replicate with cut or an awk one liner.