Re: [CSV][CSV-127] Ignore Empty Lines doesn't ignore empty first line

FYI: this has been boiled down to a different issue. This user has a BOM in his file. Gary Original message From: Emmanuel Bourg Date:08/31/2014 05:09 (GMT-05:00) To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [CSV][CSV-127] Ignore Empty Lines doesn't ignore empty first

Re: [CSV][CSV-127] Ignore Empty Lines doesn't ignore empty first line

Le 28/08/2014 17:35, sebb a écrit : > If so, maybe it would be useful to provide a means of skipping N lines > before reading the column names. Since the caller controls the input reader he could easily invoke readLine() before handing the parsing to CSVParser. Emmanuel Bourg -

Re: [CSV][CSV-127] Ignore Empty Lines doesn't ignore empty first line

Hi Gary, so I won't have the time before my vacaton :) I'll have a look when I'm back! Bene 2014-08-28 15:25 GMT+02:00 Gary Gregory : > Benedikt and all: > > I am looking for feedback on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-127 > > Thank you, > Gary > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com

Re: [CSV][CSV-127] Ignore Empty Lines doesn't ignore empty first line

What is the use case for ignoring an initial blank/empty line? Is there a common app that creates such output? Are there other CSV output formats that have unwanted data before the column names? If so, maybe it would be useful to provide a means of skipping N lines before reading the column names.

[CSV][CSV-127] Ignore Empty Lines doesn't ignore empty first line

Benedikt and all: I am looking for feedback on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-127 Thank you, Gary -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition JUnit in Action, Second Edition