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Re: How to parse CSV


  • Subject: Re: How to parse CSV
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:56:16 -0500

What are you doing with the javascript string?  If it's going into a
Safari "do javascript" command, then yeah, you need the whole string
at once, but if you're writing it to a file you can deal with it
piecemeal...

You could use Perl via "do shell script", but you'd have to either
install the Text::CSV module from CPAN, or roll your own.  Better, I
think, to use Python or Ruby, which come with CSV parsers
preinstalled.  I believe they also both come with the ability to
output lists in Javascript syntax (technically YAML, but with the
option to use the JSON-compatible subset of YAML).


On 1/23/08, Benedikt Quirmbach <email@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, I'm thinking about reading the file line by line.
>
> But at the end I need the converted csv data as a string. The goal of
> this project is to build a string with the csv data as a JavaScript
> array... If this is  a better way... I'm not shure.
>
> As I wrote Skeeve helped me a lot in a privat email conversation. He
> suggested to use Perl instead of AppleScript. Maybe with an
> AppleScript as frontend.
>
> Benedikt
>
>
> Am 23.01.2008 um 12:57 schrieb Mark J. Reed:
>
> > On Jan 23, 2008 4:52 AM, Benedikt Quirmbach <email@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >> The real csv files have up to 35000 lines and up to 10 items every
> >> line.
> >> Here the handler works endless. As Skeeve said (he testet with 10000
> >> lines) there is a stack overflow.
> >
> > So why are you trying to slurp the whole 35,000-line file into memory
> > as one big list?  Can't you just process each line as you read it?
> >
> > --
> > Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
>
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