Re: File_CSV as standalone package?

From: Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:50:38 +0000
Subject: Re: File_CSV as standalone package?
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Mika Tuupola wrote:
have a look at www.php.net/fgetcsv - for the most part File_CSV is redundant (Except in exceptional cases where the file cannot be handled by the build in functions.. [snip]
Other features File_CSV has which fgetcsv can not do: * CSV format autodetection * CSV file error detection * It handles quoted multiline fields So I would not say File_CSV is redundant :)
Neither would I. Look at all of the comments at http://www.php.net/fgetcvs. All of those scripts are doing something above and beyond what fgetcvs does, and that stuff (and more, perhaps) should be in File_CSV. -- Marshall Roch

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