I replied to Phil privately, but since others have joined the conversation, I'll respond publicly. I use the code at pbewig.googlepages.com/ProcessingFieldedTextFiles.pdf to process comma-delimited files and other text-formatted databases. I've never timed it, or compared it to other code, but it's always been fast enough for what I wanted to do. Let me know if you find it useful.
Phil (another Phil, not the original poster)
On 2/9/07, Phil Dawes pdawes@users.sf.net wrote:
Marc Feeley wrote:
Interesting. But why would you do it in C (in 600 lines of code) when you can do it in 20 lines of Scheme?
Ignorance maybe! There's a little more to csv parsing than just splitting on ",", but having said that your code runs a lot quicker than I was expecting.
I had tried http://www.neilvandyke.org/csv-scm/ but this was really slow so turned my sights to wrapping a c library.
Thanks!
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