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CsvHelper vs Sep in the land of bad CSVs
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namespace CSVHelperVsSep; | |
public class Comparison | |
{ | |
public string? Original; | |
public string? Sep; | |
public string? CsvHelper; | |
} |
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a,True | |
"",True | |
"""",True | |
"""""",True | |
"a",True | |
"a""a",True | |
"a""a""a",True | |
a""a,False | |
a"a"a,False | |
"" ,False | |
"a" ,False | |
"",False | |
"a",False | |
a"""a,False | |
"a"a"a",False | |
"" ,False | |
"a" ,False | |
"a"""a,False | |
"a"""a",False | |
""a",False | |
"a"a",False | |
""a"a"",False | |
""",False | |
""""",False |
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using System.Globalization; | |
using CsvHelper; | |
using CsvHelper.Configuration; | |
using CSVHelperVsSep; | |
using nietras.SeparatedValues; | |
const string testFile = "./forTest.csv"; | |
var testString = File.ReadAllText(testFile); | |
var split = testString.Split('\n').Select(x => x.Split(',').First()); | |
var comparisons = split.Where(s => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s)).Select(s => new Comparison { Original = s }).ToList(); | |
using var reader = new StringReader(testString); | |
var configuration = new CsvConfiguration(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) | |
{ | |
Mode = CsvMode.NoEscape, | |
HasHeaderRecord = false | |
}; | |
using var csvHelper = new CsvReader(reader, configuration); | |
var index = 0; | |
Console.WriteLine("CSVHelper"); | |
while (csvHelper.Read()) | |
{ | |
comparisons[index].CsvHelper = csvHelper.GetField(0); | |
Console.WriteLine($"{index}: `{comparisons[index].Original}` - `{comparisons[index].CsvHelper}` - {(comparisons[index].Original.Equals(comparisons[index].CsvHelper) ? "Pass" : "Fail")}"); | |
index++; | |
} | |
index = 0; | |
Console.WriteLine("Sep"); | |
try | |
{ | |
using var sep = Sep.Reader(o => o with { HasHeader = false, Unescape = true, CultureInfo = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture}).FromText(testString); | |
foreach (var readRow in sep) | |
{ | |
comparisons[index].Sep = readRow[0].ToString(); | |
Console.WriteLine( | |
$"{index}: `{comparisons[index].Original}` - `{comparisons[index].Sep}` - {(comparisons[index].Original.Equals(comparisons[index].Sep) ? "Pass" : "Fail")}"); | |
index++; | |
} | |
} | |
catch (Exception ex) | |
{ | |
Console.WriteLine($"Failed at index {index}: {ex.Message}"); | |
} |
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