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The fact that you can parse CSV in reverse is quite cool, but you can't necessarily use it for crash recovery (as suggested) because you can't be sure that the

The fact that you can parse CSV in reverse is quite cool, but you can't necessarily use it for crash recovery (as suggested) because you can't be sure that the last thing written was a complete record.

nly 2y ago
Last field rather than last record. The first row will give you column count.
- masfuerte 2y ago
  The column count doesn't help because you don't know where the last record starts because you don't know whether you're in a string or not. Unless you scan the entire file from the beginning, which defeats the object.
  - nly 2y ago
    Unless newlines in strings are escaped