Tjerk Meesters wrote: > Hi list, > > As I was fiddling with CSV data reading and writing I noticed that fgetcsv() > is inherently incompatible with fputcsv() when it comes to the enclosure > escape character that’s used. > > Example: http://3v4l.org/LHEZj > > The above example code demonstrates how, by default, fputcsv() encodes a > backslash as is but fgetcsv() will treat that same backslash as the enclosure > escape character as well as the enclosure character itself; this is rather > surprising behaviour and imho unnecessarily complicated. > > I would suggest changing the behaviour in such a way that: > a) the default enclosure escape character for fgetcsv() is a double quote. > b) fgetcsv() only treats the escape character as … an escape character. > > Due to the kind of change BC can’t be maintained, so I’d propose this change > for PHP 7. > > If anyone has violent objections to the above, or thinks that an RFC should > be drawn up, do let me know … otherwise I’ll commit the change into master by > next week or so.
Are you aware of <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50686>? It seems this very inconsistency has been reported a few years ago, but has been tagged as "Wont fix" back then. <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38929> also seems to deal with this inconsistency, and had been tagged as "Not a bug". So maybe an RFC is appropriate? -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
