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T-F-S / csvsimple

A LaTeX package for lightweight CSV file processing.
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/csvsimple
LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c
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Missing doublequote support hidden in documentation #3

Closed lemzwerg closed 5 years ago

lemzwerg commented 5 years ago

It really took me hours to find out that csvsimple doesn't support the standard CSV notation for quoting, i.e., the use of paired double quotes. Neither is there a single example in the beginning of the manual that demonstrates the use of { and }, nor is there any warning that "..." can fail silently because csvsimple ignores lines that it cannot parse.

Please adapt section 'First Steps' accordingly.

T-F-S commented 5 years ago

The second line of 'First Steps' gives a positive mention that curly braces can be used for quoting. I can add a warning that other kinds of quotation like double quotes are not supported.

lemzwerg commented 5 years ago

Yes, please. And ideally at least one example gets slightly massaged to demonstrate { and } also.

T-F-S commented 5 years ago

Introduction of v1.21 extended with caveats for csv file format.

lemzwerg commented 5 years ago

Herzlichen Dank!

However, this sentence from the documentation

Values are expected to be not quoted or quoted with curly braces |{}|

is ambiguous. I suggest that it gets replaced with something like the following.

Values are expected to be either not quoted or quoted with curly braces |{}|
T-F-S commented 5 years ago

OK, I will add the word either for the next version.