{- | module: Text.CSV license: MIT maintainer: Jaap Weel stability: provisional portability: ghc This module parses and dumps documents that are formatted more or less according to RFC 4180, \"Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files\", . There are some issues with this RFC. I will describe what these issues are and how I deal with them. First, the RFC prescribes CRLF standard network line breaks, but you are likely to run across CSV files with other line endings, so we accept any sequence of CRs and LFs as a line break. Second, there is an optional header line, but the format for the header line is exactly like a regular record and you can only figure out whether it exists from the mime type, which may not be available. I ignore the issues of header lines and simply turn them into regular records. Third, there is an inconsistency, in that the formal grammar specifies that fields can contain only certain US ASCII characters, but the specification of the MIME type allows for other character sets. I will allow all characters in fields, except for commas, CRs and LFs in unquoted fields. This should make it possible to parse CSV files in any encoding, but it allows for characters such as tabs that the RFC may be interpreted to forbid even in non-US-ASCII character sets. NOTE: Several people have asked me to implement extensions that are used in non-US versions Microsoft Excel. This library implements RFC-compliant CSV, not Microsoft Excel CSV. If you want to write a library that deals with the CSV-like formats used by non-US versions of Excel or any other software, you should write a separate library. I suggest you call it Text.SSV, for "Something Separated Values." -} {- Copyright (c) Jaap Weel 2007. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -} module Text.CSV (CSV , Record , Field , csv , parseCSV , parseCSVFromFile , parseCSVTest , printCSV ) where import Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec import Data.List (intersperse) -- | A CSV file is a series of records. According to the RFC, the -- records all have to have the same length. As an extension, I -- allow variable length records. type CSV = [Record] -- | A record is a series of fields type Record = [Field] -- | A field is a string type Field = String -- | A Parsec parser for parsing CSV files csv :: Parser CSV csv = do x <- record `sepEndBy` many1 (oneOf "\n\r") eof return x record :: Parser Record record = (quotedField <|> field) `sepBy` char ',' field :: Parser Field field = many (noneOf ",\n\r\"") quotedField :: Parser Field quotedField = between (char '"') (char '"') $ many (noneOf "\"" <|> try (string "\"\"" >> return '"')) -- | Given a file name (used only for error messages) and a string to -- parse, run the parser. parseCSV :: FilePath -> String -> Either ParseError CSV parseCSV = parse csv -- | Given a file name, read from that file and run the parser parseCSVFromFile :: FilePath -> IO (Either ParseError CSV) parseCSVFromFile = parseFromFile csv -- | Given a string, run the parser, and print the result on stdout. parseCSVTest :: String -> IO () parseCSVTest = parseTest csv -- | Given an object of type CSV, generate a CSV formatted -- string. Always uses escaped fields. printCSV :: CSV -> String printCSV records = unlines (printRecord `map` records) where printRecord = concat . intersperse "," . map printField printField f = "\"" ++ concatMap escape f ++ "\"" escape '"' = "\"\"" escape x = [x] unlines = concat . intersperse "\n"