Re: [bug-gawk] Tentative CSV extension - please advise

[arnold]

"Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > The right way to do this is to extend the extension mechanism with a 
> > function
> > pointer that sets the fields.  Or more likely to add a fields array pointer
> > to the awk_input_buf_t and a flag indicating that the values should be used.
>
> That will work well in most cases, but do we want to try to support getline
> into a variable where the code may later call split on that variable? If so, 
> we
> would need to find a way to extend the split() function as well. Maybe it's 
> too
> difficult to do that...

Yes. That's getting too messy.  Instead such an extension should simply define
a csvsplit() function.

The big problem is embedded newlines in the fields.  Sigh. If not for that
we could deal with this issue much more easily...