Text.Read.CSV

Implementation of RFC 4180-compliant CSV parser and emitter. Works with both LF (Unix) and CRLF (DOS) linebreaks and allows varianble-length records. The header line (if one is used) is the first item in the parsed list, and can be separated with a pattern match.

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readCSV :: String -> Maybe [[String]]

Parse CSV from a string.

writeCSV :: [[String]] -> String

Emit CSV, escaping fields as necessary. Uses Unix linebreaks and a trailing newline.

writeCSVstrict :: [[String]] -> String

Emit CSV with CRLF line breaks ans no trailing newline, as specified by RFC 4180.

csvTableP :: ReadP [[String]]

ReadP parser for CSV.