Re: A robust but concise way to read TSV header?

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/24/21 10:39 AM, Jesse Hathaway wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:17 AM Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The following won't work, as it removes empty fields.
>
> Would using a CSV be an option rather than a TSV? If so you could use the
> csv builtin:

If you want a "tsv" builtin, it would take less than five minutes to modify
the csv builtin to do what you need.

Or extend it so you can specify the delimiter using an option.

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