Strings and Things - Java - page 113

After the quotes are escaped, the string being parsed is actually the following:

"LU",86.25,"11/4/1998","2:19PM",+4.0625

Running CSVSimple yields the following output:

> java csv.CSVSimple
LU
86.25
11/4/1998
2:19PM
+4.0625
>

But what about the CSV class itself? The code in Example 3-11 started as a translation of a
CSV program written in C++ by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike that appeared in their
book The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley). Their version commingled the input
processing with the parsing; my CSV class does only the parsing because the input could be
coming from any of a variety of sources. And it has been substantially rewritten over time.
The main work is done in parse() , which delegates handling of individual fields to ad-
vquoted() in cases where the field begins with a quote; otherwise, to advplain() .

Example 3-11. CSV.java
// package com.darwinsys.csv;

public public class class CSVImport CSVImport implements implements CSVParser {

public public static static final final char char DEFAULT_SEP = ',' ;

/** Construct a CSV parser, with the default separator (`,'). */
public public CSVImport () {

this

this ( DEFAULT_SEP );

}

/** Construct a CSV parser with a given separator.
* @param sep The single char for the separator (not a list of
* separator characters)
*/
public

public CSVImport ( char char sep ) {

fieldSep = sep ;

}