Re: FPAT is not working as expected

[Manuel Collado]

El 21/12/2020 a las 14:44, Andrew J. Schorr escribió:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:39:00AM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You can avoid the burden of composing a working FPAT and removing the
> > > quoting of the fields by using the CSVMODE gawk library available at
> > >
> > >       http://mcollado.z15.es/xgawk/
> >
> > Can this be merged into the one in gawkextlib?  That way we're
> > keeping useful extensions in just one place.

It is certainly possible to store any gawk utility in the gawkextlib 
repository. But please consider what follows.

The csvmode library is independent of the gawk-csv extension. It will be 
problematic to merge both tools into a single one.

All the tools in gawkextlib use the gawk API. Some potential users 
refuse to use them because of the lack of binary distributions for their 
platforms. And probably will not even look at what is available there.

What I miss is a central comprehensive store for free gawk code snippets 
than can help general users. Maybe at SourceForge, but separate from 
gawkextlib.

> Adding to Arnold's question: how does this pure-gawk solution
> compare to the gawkextlib version?

Pure-gawk code is surely slower than C code. And the user interface has 
been reworked. Migrating from gawk-csv to csvmode or vice versa will 
require changes in the user code.

> I'm not clear on whether
> the latter is in alpha, beta, or production.

I don't claim csvmode is a rock solid stuff. It works, but will be 0.x 
version until enough users use it without serious claims. So it is 
probably in beta state now.

Thank you for your interest. Kind regards.

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Manuel Collado - http://mcollado.z15.es