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csv

Description

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

Library Procedures

Returns #t if the given object is a csv-record, #f otherwise.

Takes in a list of values and creates a csv-record object.

Returns the list of values contained in the given csv-record object.

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:

 ((<#csv-record (STRING1 STRING2 ...)>) (<#csv-record ... >))

where STRING represents the field values in a record.

Returns procedures for outputting individual field values, CSV records, and lists of CSV records, where each list is printed on a separate line.

Procedure FORMAT-CELL takes in a value, obtains its string representation via format, and surrounds the string with quotes, if it contains characters that need to be escaped (such as quote characters, the delimiter character, or newlines).

Procedure FORMAT-RECORD takes in a record of type csv-record and returns its string representation, based on the strings produced by FORMAT-CELL and the delimiter character.

Procedure FORMAT-CVS takes in a list of csv-record objects and produces a string representation using FORMAT-RECORD.

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License

 Copyright 2009 Ivan Raikov and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.
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