csv_read¶

Read a Csv File¶

Prototype¶

   vec_vec_str csv_read(const std::string& file_name)
      // ...
      return csv_table;

vec_vec_str¶

see vec_vec_str .

file_name¶

is the name of the file containing the csv file. Each row in this file ends with a newlines '\n'. The columns are separated by commas ',' . A comma at the end of a line means there is an empty value at the end of the corresponding row. There are no other special characters in this file.

csv_table¶

The j-th column of the i-th row of the file contains the value csv_table[i][j] . The special characters '\n' and ',' are not included in these values.
The row and column indices start at zero.
csv_table.size() is the number of rows in the table
csv_table[i].size() is the number of columns in the i-th row.

Example¶

xam_csv_read.cpp contains an example and test of this routine.