CSV Interface v3.1.4

Improvements:

• Improved delimiter guesser.
• More delimiter guessing tests have been added. Samples provided with reported CleverCSV issues (#15, #35, #37).
• Renamed some auxiliary guessing methods.

CSV Interface v3.1.3

Improvements:

• Delimiters guessing improved. Tested with samples provided with reported Papa Parse issues (#804, #681, #658, #688) and others provided by @sancarn!
• Added delimiter guessing unit test.
• Added the ability to use any character (excluding space character) as a field delimiter. By default they are comma, semicolon, tab, pipe and colon.
• Updated all test results.

CSV Interface v3.1.2

Bugs fixed:

• Unit test missing configuration.
• Unexpected ending of the import operation.

Improvements:

• Unix quote escape mechanism is now supported via unixEscapeMechanism property of parseConfig object.
• A CSV parsing test with Unix escape has been added.
• User can specify tilde as quote character.
• Added EnforcedQuotation option to ExportToCSV method.
• Removed nulstring member from EscapeTokens enumeration.
• Multiline fields are treated as string despite dynamic typing configuration.
• Updated documentation.

CSV Interface v3.1.1

Bugs fixed:

• Fields that were not well escaped could not be handled as expected when exporting.

Improvements:

• Adds one more test, selected from Papa Parse issue 121.
• Updated docs.

CSV Interface v3.1.0

Bugs fixed:

• Escaped fields could not be handled well. It is now expected that quoted fields will be as close as possible to the RFC-4180 specifications when writing this kind of fields on a CSV file.
• Unable to guess delimiters.
• Error alerts were not reset after attempting to guess the delimiters.
• Unable to handle quoted fields with embedded line breaks.
• Unable to stop the analysis when the user requests a number of records but the end of the file is reached.
• Unable to detect the variation of the number of fields when the first record has more fields than the following ones.
• Unable to adjust the buffer size when the specified record delimiter is missing.

Improvements:

• A Test Driven Development (TDD) suite has been added.
• Option added: user can instruct the parser to turn all the stream's record delimiters to LF.
• Records are ignored only when they are empty or commented out, as specified in the skipCommentLines and skipEmptyLines options. This Closes #9.
• Now the ImportFromCSVString method can guess the delimiters specified in the parseConfig.delimitersGuessing property.
• More import and advanced examples have been added.
• Added FAQ section.
• Added error messages docs.
• Added options: SkipCommentLines, SkipEmptyLines.
• Updated ECPTextStream module.
• Some lines in the import procedures have been refactored or rewritten.
• Deprecated option: catchMeaninglessRecords.
• The parser allows the following characters as comment tokens: [#](default) , [!], [$], [%], and [&].
• Updated benchmarks.
• Updated docs.

CSV Interface v3.0.8

• Update: ECPTextStream class module.

CSV Interface v3.0.7

• Bug Fixed: Out of bound when subsetting.

CSV Interface v3.0.6

• Enhancement: added support to export ECPArrayList objects.
• Enhancement: added GetCSVsubset method.
• Enhancement: added CSVdatasetSplit method.
• Bug Fixed: error appending to existing files.
• Bug Fixed: the comment token in the CopyConfig method of the parserConfig module is not recognized.
• Update: delimiters guessing is now optional when exporting to CSV files.
• Update: DOC repo.

CSV Interface v3.0.5

• Enhancement: colons are accepted as field delimiters.

CSV Interface v3.0.4

• Bug Fixed: could not detect apostrophes as escape char in text streams.
• Enhancement: implemented sequential reading, in forward sense, from CSV files.
• Enhancement: sort operation is now 2x more faster and fully integrated into the ECPArrayList.cls module.
• Enhancement: the DumpToAccessTable now tries to add the data to the table if it already exists.
• Update: parameters change in DumpToArray, DumpToJaggedArray and DumpToSheet methods.
• Update: DOC repo.