On 2/26/2015 1:40 AM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:

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\startluacode local mycsvsplitter = utilities.parsers.rfc4180splitter{ separator = ",", quote = '"', }

local crap = io.loaddata("data.txt")

-- with header variant local tablerows, columnname = mycsvsplitter(crap,true) inspect(tablerows) inspect(columnname)

-- without header variant -- local tablerows = mycsvsplitter(crap) -- inspect(tablerows)

for i=1,#tablerows do local l = tablerows[i] for j=1,#l do context(l[j]..", ") end context('\\crlf') end

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line 527 in util-prs.lua: local wholeblob = Ct((newline^(specification.strict and -1 or 1) * record)^0) should do the trick i'm not sure about the default as the standard might demand quit at empty line so that needs to be figured out (not by me therefore by you) \starttext \startluacode local crap = [[ 1,"2","3","4" "a","b","c","d" "foo","bar""baz","boogie","xyzzy" " "," "," "," " "And now","followed by","several","blank lines" 1,"2","3","4" "a","b","c","d" "foo","bar""baz","boogie","xyzzy" " "," "," "," " ]] local mycsvsplitter = { utilities.parsers.rfc4180splitter{ separator = ",", quote = '"', strict = true, }, utilities.parsers.rfc4180splitter{ separator = ",", quote = '"', } } for i=1,#mycsvsplitter do local tablerows, columnname = mycsvsplitter[i](crap,true) context.formatted.title("Case %s",i) for i=1,#tablerows do local l = tablerows[i] for j=1,#l do context(l[j]..", ") end context('\\crlf') end end \stopluacode \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------