[Newbies] CSV file help

Joseph Alotta joseph.alotta at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 20:42:01 UTC 2016


Greetings,

I am needing conceptual help with parsing these troublesome CSV files.  I was breaking the lines using String >> findToken:
but I found lines where extra deliminators were added.  Notice the three following lines, the first and third line have extra commas from Oak Brook, IL and the second line does not have the comma.


02/04/2016  Thu,,"COSTCO WHSE #0388 000000000990388 - OAK BROOK, IL",,,,,37.00,,,,,,,,
02/05/2016  Fri,,"ELECTRONIC PAYMENT RECEIVED-THANK",,,,,-443.52,,,,,,,,
02/06/2016  Sat,,"COSTCO WHSE #1088 000000000991088 - BOLINGBROOK, IL",,,,,50.86,,,,,,,,

I think I need to parse with the double quotes in mind, but I don’t know where to break it.

Also, I was reading in the squeak pages that someone had already written code for this, but I couldn’t find anything.

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3260 has two methods, CSVSubstrings and SequenceableCollection-asCSVLine.st

Does anyone know where these are now?

Sincerely,

Joe.





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