Re: How to avoid stumbling over empty lines in csv data loader

Sunday, February 26, 2006, 11:35:23 AM, Ralf Hauser wrote:


>> > Thanks, if would be great if that wasn't just
>> > "ignoreTrailingEmptyLines", but "ignoreEmptyLinesInAnyPosition"!
>> Empty lines at the end of a file can occur accidentally, but in the
>> middle of the CSV file? How could that happen?
> In many ways, not the last being the user, adding some <#--  -->
> comments or <!--  --> or "#"  to the input file or whatever reason...

(We are talking about CSV files... if somebody adds FTL or HTML
comments to a CSV file in the belief that those will be ignored,
that's really a situation that can't be handled.)

> I guess, if you are taking care of it, why not make it robust even to that case as well
>> I want to schedule the .11 release after the FreeMarker 2.3.5 release,
>> which is planned be done next week, but who knows. Anyway, I will
>> create a qfix jar if this CVS thing is done.
> CSV or CVS?

CSV.

> Sounds good - I'll try to make a CVS-HEAD build, once you say it is ready.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany



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