Hi, I would like to suggest a few improvements to the Apache Commons CSV project (a few things that I noticed when using it).
1. It seems that CSVWriter.writeRecord() is not writing a platform-independent newline sequence. If you open a resulting .csv file with notepad.exe on a Windows XP machine, it looks like we're missing one of the line ending characters. 2. I was expecting CSVConfig.setFieldHeader(true) to enable the generation of the CSV header with the first writeRecord() call, but it did not. I had to create a separate Map just for this. 3. Like some of the other CSV packages out there, I'd like to see special handling when each field is written to optionally quote strings with special characters. For example, if my separater is a comma, I should not have to replace all occurrences of a comma with a blank before calling writeRecord(). It should scan and automatically quote the data. This would be sweet. I like the idea of a CSVConfig class. This is what many of the other efforts were lacking... My $0.02. Thanks. -- Dwaine Van Bibber Application Development (412) 666-3220 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
