[Thousand-Oaks-pm] CSV code example
Tony
tony at metracom.com
Sat Sep 15 10:53:28 PDT 2012
Hi Chuck, I had some time while eating lunch today.
Tony G
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
while (<DATA>) {
chomp;
print "csvLine before parseCSV: $_\n";
print &parseCSV($_);
print "\n\n";
}
sub parseCSV {
my ($line) = @_;
my(@line,$columns,$l);
@line = split(/","|",|,"/);
foreach $l ( @line ) {
$l =~ s/"//g;
$l =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//;
print "[$l]\n";
}
return $columns;
}
__DATA__
"col 1","col 2","col 3","col 4"
"col 1"",""col,,,,,,2"",""col ,,3","col "4""
"col 1","col '2'",col '3' ,"col, 4"
"col 1,a,1",col 2,"col,3,b",col 4,
On Saturday 15 September 2012 06:26:18 Chuck Hardin wrote:
> The following is a code example from TO-PM member Barry Brevik:
>
> Since we did not meet this month, let me throw some code at 'ya.
>
> I frequently have to make one-off utilities to parse customer CSV files.
> I try to avoid using modules for really simple things, so I use the
> subroutine shown below. I have received some pretty weird formatting,
> and this code handles most of them. Keep in mind that the rows in the
> __DATA__ section represent actual formatting of files that I have
> received.
>
> P.S. notice that the 4th row fails to parse... I have not dealt with it
> yet. Anyone with improvements or nasty comments should go ahead and
> post!
>
> #
> # parseCSV.pl
> #
> # This is a test wrapper for the parseCSV() subroutine.
> #
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> # Un-buffer STDOUT.
> select((select(STDOUT), $| = 1)[0]);
>
> while (<DATA>)
> {
> print "csvLine before parseCSV: $_\n\n";
> my @csvArray = parseCSV($_);
> print "[$_]\n" foreach (@csvArray);
> print "\n\n";
> }
>
> #----------------------------------------------------------
> # CALL with a CSV line.
> #
> # This routine parses a single CSV line and handles ',' chars embedded
> # in fields as well as extraneous spaces in between dbl quoted fields.
> # It is also resistant to extra dbl quotes within dbl quoted fields,
> # but it will remove them.
> #
> sub parseCSV
> {
> my @columns = ();
>
> if (my $csvline = shift)
> {
> # If the CSV line has any portion with 2 or more sequential commas
> ','
> # then replace the commas with pipe '|' characters.
> while ($csvline =~ /(,{2,})/)
> {
> my $commas = $1;
> my $pipes = '|' x length($1);
> $csvline =~ s/^(.*)$commas(.*)/$1$pipes$2/;
> }
>
> # If there are any commas embedded in the CSV quoted fields, replace
> them
> # with pipe '|' characters.
> $csvline =~ s/("[^",]+?),([^",]+?")/$1|$2/g;
> @columns = split ',', $csvline; # Split the quoted fields at the
> remaining commas.
> s/\|/,/g foreach @columns; # Replace pipe characters with
> commas.
> s/\x22//g foreach @columns; # Remove double quotes from each
> column.
> s/^\s+|\s+$//g foreach @columns; # Remove leading and trailing
> white space from each column.
> }
>
> return @columns;
> }
>
> __DATA__
> "col 1","col 2","col 3","col 4"
> "col 1"",""col,,,,,,2"",""col ,,3","col "4""
> "col 1","col '2'",col '3' ,"col, 4"
> "col 1,a,1",col 2,"col,3,b",col 4,
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