Re: [csv] the plot thinkens: multi-record headers

2013-08-01 Thread Gary Gregory
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:51 AM, sebb wrote: > On 1 August 2013 10:56, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > Le 01/08/2013 01:38, Gary Gregory a écrit : > > > >> Thoughts? > > > > You'll always find a weird formats that doesn't fit with the common > > model. I don't think we should spend too much time trying

Re: [csv] the plot thinkens: multi-record headers

2013-08-01 Thread sebb
On 1 August 2013 10:56, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 01/08/2013 01:38, Gary Gregory a écrit : > >> Thoughts? > > You'll always find a weird formats that doesn't fit with the common > model. I don't think we should spend too much time trying to support all > of them. +1 > In this case the header wi

Re: [csv] the plot thinkens: multi-record headers

2013-08-01 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 01/08/2013 01:38, Gary Gregory a écrit : > Thoughts? You'll always find a weird formats that doesn't fit with the common model. I don't think we should spend too much time trying to support all of them. In this case the header will have to be provided by the developer, and the first lines ski

[csv] the plot thinkens: multi-record headers

2013-07-31 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi All, I found an interesting set of sample CSV files [1] on the IBM Tivoli web site. Each file seems to have a, for lack of a better term, "pre-header". For example, the simplest file [2] looks like this (3 lines): SRM_SaaS_ES,MXASSETInterface,AddChange,EN ASSETNUM,AS_SITEID mesa01,SDASITE A m