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  KOffice filters status: &nbsp;&nbsp;<i>CSV - Comma Separated Values</i>
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        Import CSV for KSpread<BR>
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     <td>9 jan 2001</td>
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     <td>- Can import CVS documents</td>
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       - Automatically adjust the columns width to their contents.<BR>
       Will be difficult, as we don't know the font used...<BR>
       Solution ? Set a default font _in_ the filter, and use it to <BR>
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      <A HREF="mailto:faure@kde.org">David Faure</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <A HREF="mailto:trobin@kde.org">Werner Trobin</A>
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       <H2>Design</H2>
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The CSV import filter uses a hand-made state machine to parse the CSV file.
This allows to handle quoted fields (such as those containing the CSV delimiter),
as well as the double-quote character itself (which then appears twice, and
always in a quoted field).
Just to make sure about the vocabulary, I call a quoted field a field
starting with " and finishing with ".

Let's try to draw the graph of the state machine using ascii-art.


         DEL or EOL
            /--\            
            |  |           
            |  v    &quot;     
       /--[START]-------->[QUOTED_FIELD] (**) 
  other|   ^   ^            |        ^ 
   (*) |   |   | DEL or     | &quot;      | &quot; (*) 
       |   |   | EOL        v        |           other 
       |   |   \----[MAYBE_END_OF_QUOTED_FIELD]--------> Error 
       |   |
       |   | DEL or
       |   | EOL
       v   |
   [NORMAL_FIELD] (**)

DEL  : CSV delimiter (depends on locale !). Often comma, sometimes semicolon.
EOL  : End Of Line.
(*)  : added to the current field
(**) : implicit loop on itself, labeled &quot;other (*)&quot;


Ugly isn't it ? :) One can't be good in drawings AND in hacking :)

That's all. For the rest, see csvfilter.cpp

David Faure &lt;faure@kde.org&gt;, 1999 
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      <A HREF="mailto:faure@kde.org">David Faure</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <A HREF="mailto:trobin@kde.org">Werner Trobin</A>
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