As all the CSV questions seem to get redirected here, I thought I'd post my answer here. This answer does not directly address the asker's question. I wanted to be able to read in a stream that is known to be in CSV format, and also the types of each field was already known. Of course, the method below could be used to treat every field to be a string type.
As an example of how I wanted to be able to use a CSV input stream, consider the following input (taken from wikipedia's page on CSV):
const char input[] =
"Year,Make,Model,Description,Price\n"
"1997,Ford,E350,\"ac, abs, moon\",3000.00\n"
"1999,Chevy,\"Venture \"\"Extended Edition\"\"\",\"\",4900.00\n"
"1999,Chevy,\"Venture \"\"Extended Edition, Very Large\"\"\",\"\",5000.00\n"
"1996,Jeep,Grand Cherokee,\"MUST SELL!\n\
air, moon roof, loaded\",4799.00\n"
;
Then, I wanted to be able to read in the data like this:
std::istringstream ss(input);
std::string title[5];
int year;
std::string make, model, desc;
float price;
csv_istream(ss)
>> title[0] >> title[1] >> title[2] >> title[3] >> title[4];
while (csv_istream(ss)
>> year >> make >> model >> desc >> price) {
//...do something with the record...
}
This was the solution I ended up with.
struct csv_istream {
std::istream &is_;
csv_istream (std::istream &is) : is_(is) {}
void scan_ws () const {
while (is_.good()) {
int c = is_.peek();
if (c != ' ' && c != '\t') break;
is_.get();
}
}
void scan (std::string *s = 0) const {
std::string ws;
int c = is_.get();
if (is_.good()) {
do {
if (c == ',' || c == '\n') break;
if (s) {
ws += c;
if (c != ' ' && c != '\t') {
*s += ws;
ws.clear();
}
}
c = is_.get();
} while (is_.good());
if (is_.eof()) is_.clear();
}
}
template <typename T, bool> struct set_value {
void operator () (std::string in, T &v) const {
std::istringstream(in) >> v;
}
};
template <typename T> struct set_value<T, true> {
template <bool SIGNED> void convert (std::string in, T &v) const {
if (SIGNED) v = ::strtoll(in.c_str(), 0, 0);
else v = ::strtoull(in.c_str(), 0, 0);
}
void operator () (std::string in, T &v) const {
convert<is_signed_int<T>::val>(in, v);
}
};
template <typename T> const csv_istream & operator >> (T &v) const {
std::string tmp;
scan(&tmp);
set_value<T, is_int<T>::val>()(tmp, v);
return *this;
}
const csv_istream & operator >> (std::string &v) const {
v.clear();
scan_ws();
if (is_.peek() != '"') scan(&v);
else {
std::string tmp;
is_.get();
std::getline(is_, tmp, '"');
while (is_.peek() == '"') {
v += tmp;
v += is_.get();
std::getline(is_, tmp, '"');
}
v += tmp;
scan();
}
return *this;
}
template <typename T>
const csv_istream & operator >> (T &(*manip)(T &)) const {
is_ >> manip;
return *this;
}
operator bool () const { return !is_.fail(); }
};
With the following helpers that may be simplified by the new integral traits templates in C++11:
template <typename T> struct is_signed_int { enum { val = false }; };
template <> struct is_signed_int<short> { enum { val = true}; };
template <> struct is_signed_int<int> { enum { val = true}; };
template <> struct is_signed_int<long> { enum { val = true}; };
template <> struct is_signed_int<long long> { enum { val = true}; };
template <typename T> struct is_unsigned_int { enum { val = false }; };
template <> struct is_unsigned_int<unsigned short> { enum { val = true}; };
template <> struct is_unsigned_int<unsigned int> { enum { val = true}; };
template <> struct is_unsigned_int<unsigned long> { enum { val = true}; };
template <> struct is_unsigned_int<unsigned long long> { enum { val = true}; };
template <typename T> struct is_int {
enum { val = (is_signed_int<T>::val || is_unsigned_int<T>::val) };
};
Try it online!
boost::spiritfor parsing. It is more for parsing grammars thank parsing a simple file format. Someone on my team was trying to use it to parse XML and it was a pain to debug. Stay away fromboost::spiritif possible. – Misjudgespiritis pretty hard to use for a parser combinator library. Having had some (very pleasant) experience with Haskells(atto)parseclibraries I expected it (spirit) to work similarly well, but gave up on it after fighting with 600 line compiler errors. – Spruik