Re: csv (comma separated value) file

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

2009/8/11 Damon Register <damon w register lmco com>

Joshua Lock wrote:

GSF (GNOME Structured File Library)[1], which Gnumeric uses, does CSV:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gsf/stable/gsf-Text.html

Since I am interested in parsing csv data, I got interested in this
thread.  I am not motivated enough to develop a library for a simple
project so the two suggestions (gsf and gda) from this thread interest
me more.

http://libcsv.sourceforge.net/

1.

I looked at these two links and got the impression that this could
generate a csv output but I didn't see anything obvious about reading
csv data.  Is that the case or am I missing something.

At first look, gda seems like it would be the most useful for csv
in and out.  Is that a correct conclusion?   I am going to try to learn
gda but so far I don't find any simple but complete examples that might
help me learn to use gda.  Does anyone have a simple but complete example
showing how to read a csv file?

Libgda enables import and export data from and to CVS files; for an example, there is  http://git.gnome.org/cgit/libgda/tree/samples/Virtual/virtual-test.c, part of the sources.

However if you only want to import CSV data Libgda may be overkill and there is the direct LibCSV  which Libgda internally uses, at http://libcsv.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

Vivien