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csv

Description

The csv library contains a procedure for parsing of comma-separated values (CSV) as described in RFC 4180. There are several differences with the RFC:

Library Procedures

Returns a CSV parsing procedure. Optional argument DELIMITER specifies the field delimiter (comma by default). DELIMITER can be a character, or an SRFI-14 character set. The returned procedure takes in a string and returns a list of the form:

 ((record STRING1 STRING2 ...) (record ... ))

where STRING represents the field values in a record.

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