Re: [bug-gawk] A CSV Standard

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

Thanks for the note. I wasn't aware of this RFC. I'll update the
manual in the next day or two.

Thanks!

Arnold

> From: "David Jordan" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:32:37 -0000
> Subject: [bug-gawk] A CSV Standard
>
> Hi,
>
> I believe I am commenting in the right place based upon the manual and have
> searched the mailing archive for this topic but it doesn't seem to have come
> up. Footnote 24 and section 4.7 refer to there not being a CSV standard as
> far as you know. While as we all know it is not one that everyone adheres to
> (to say the least), there is in fact such a standard in the form of RFC
> 4180, which was essentially reverse engineered to be what Excel does, and
> consequent to it being written there have been various libraries in most
> languages implementing it.
>
> I am not suggesting any changes to GAWK but this could maybe be noted in the
> footnote of the (excellent) manual. 
>
> Cheers,
>
> David Jordan