Re: How to Read csv Files with both Characters and Numbers?

Hi,
All the ideas here are interesting, but I would have chosen another
way. In other languages, one could use two string manipulations
tools which would make the current problem very simple to solve :

- string_split(string,chars,nbcomponent,component) splits
the given string everytime one character in the chars argument is
found and add it to the array of string "component".

- string_is(string,class) returns false or true if the
given string is an element of the given class, with class
is a string chosen in the list : "integer", "character", string",
"real", "double", etc...

With these basic tools, it would be easy to do an algorithm like
this (in pseudo-code):

foreach line
split the line at each ";" with string_split
foreach component
compute the class of the component with string_is
check that the current component has an acceptable value
process it

Of course, the basic blocks string_split and string_is do not
exist, therefore one would have to develop it...

Regards,

Michaël
.

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