Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
+---------------
| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > I agree: writing a PARSE-LINE-AS-CSV function is an excellent
| > learning tool! 
| 
| Indeed, when you start making errors at the name of the function,
| you're bound to learn a lot...
| 
| CSV records may span several lines!
+---------------

Touch�! That's one of those "special cases"
that my own CSV parser doesn't handle yet!  ;-}  ;-}

PARSE-STREAM-AS-CSV, then...?  ;-}

Plus, since CL strings may contain #\newline, for testing
at the REPL one could write a PARSE-STRING-AS-CSV:

    (defun parse-string-as-csv (string)
      (with-input-from-string (s string)
	(parse-stream-as-csv s)))


-Rob

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