Re: Package Proposal: Text_TSV

I love the well presented class, but I guess that there is already this functionality in PEAR and missing features should be implemented there. At least the points you mention in your page can be easily added. I'm -1. Btw I think that File_CSV should have its own package, nowadays the class is very hidden inside the PEAR CVS. Tomas V.V.Cox On Sunday, July 13, 2003 2:41, Paul M Jones wrote: > Hi, all, > I'd like to propose a package for parsing and building blocks of > tab-separated text (not files, but text). You can view the docs and > download the class here: > http://ciaweb.net/free/text_tsv.php > Text_TSV parses formatted text blocks into arrays, and converts arrays > into TSV-formatted text blocks. It has configurable separators (comma, > tab, etc.) and line-endings (\n, \r, etc.). Its main use is to parse > TSV text into an array, either sequentially or associatively (the first > line is used for the associative key names in that case). > I am aware of the many good CSV file readers out there: File_CSV > (already in PEAR), Data_CSV in Horde, and of course the native PHP > command fgetcsv(). However, all of these work on files and not > directly on string variables (at least, so far as I can tell, I know > someone will correct me if I'm wrong ;-). > I think the Text_TSV functionality would be useful because it work > directly with string variables; e.g., one can paste TSV-formatted data > (as from Excel) into an HTML form and parse it into an array. > Comments, criticism, suggestions, votes? > _______________________________________________________________________ > Paul M. Jones > pjones@ciaweb.net > http://ciaweb.net > PGP & GnuPG mail accepted. Public key fingerprint: > 1F2D 7B8C 3FC2 820F C593 E499 1189 4AEF AA75 78C8 > What's the Phorecast? > http://phorecast.org/ -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com