Support to skip N header rows

[ben-strasser]

Support to skip N header rows

[ben-strasser]

Hi,

does the recent commit that adds CSVReader::next_line help?

There is a mechanism to skip comment lines. However, you need to be able
to tell by only looking at the line whether it is a comment, i.e., a
rule similar to: "The first 4 lines are comments" does not work with
that mechanism because you do not know the line number.

Best Regard
Ben Strasser

On 04/29/2016 04:23 PM, breznak wrote:

Hi,

is there a way to skip arbitrary |N| rows of the header? Our CSV files
look like this:

|colName1, colName2, ... meta1,meta2 comment1, comment2 data1-1,data2-1
data1-2,data2-2 .... |

Is there a way to parse this? I'd call |set_header("colName1",
"colName2")|; then something like: |skipToRow(4)|, ...read data

If not, would you consider implementing that?
Thank you,

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#22

[breznak]

Works like a charm! 👏

This is exactly the functionality we needed.
Thank you very much Ben.

(I love open source, took 16 mins from reported bug to fix) 😉

Fixed in 646bbe5