Data.CSV

MissingH-1.1.1.0: Large utility library

Portability | portable
Stability | provisional
Maintainer | John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>

Data.CSV

Description

Haskell Parsec parsers for comma-separated value (CSV) files.

Written by John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org

Synopsis

- csvFile :: CharParser st [[String]]
- genCsvFile :: [[String]] -> String

# Documentation

csvFile :: CharParser st [[String]]

Parse a Comma-Separated Value (CSV) file. The return value is a list of lines; each line is a list of cells; and each cell is a String.

Please note that CSV files may have a different number of cells on each line. Also, it is impossible to distinguish a CSV line that has a call with no data from a CSV line that has no cells.

Here are some examples:

    Input (literal strings)          Parses As (Haskell String syntax)
    -------------------------------- ---------------------------------
    1,2,3                            [["1", "2", "3"]]

    l1                               [["l1"], ["l2"]]
    l2

     (empty line)                    [[""]]

    NQ,"Quoted"                      [["NQ", "Quoted"]]

    NQ,"Embedded""Quote"             [["NQ", "Embedded\"Quote"]]

To parse a String, you might use:

    import Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec
    import Data.String.CSV
    ....
    parse csvFile "" mystring

To parse a file, you might instead use:

    do result <- parseFromFile csvFile "/path/to/file"

Please note that the result of parsing will be of type (Either ParseError [[String]]). A Left result indicates an error. For more details, see the Parsec information.

genCsvFile :: [[String]] -> String

Generate CSV data for a file. The resulting string can be written out to disk directly.