EasyCSV: EasyCSV

Introduction

EasyCSV is a Free Pascal unit for reading an writing CSV files (Comma Separated Values). It aims at an easy, line based API.

Author

Frank Fischer frank-fischer@shadow-soft.de

License

GPL 3.0

Download

Latest release: easycsv-0.8.1.tar.gz

Latext development version: easycsv-trunk.tar.gz

Build

There are several ways to use EasyCSV.

Download the file easycsv.pas and put it in your source directory.
Download the sources and run fppkg install in the root directory of the source. This will install EasyCSV as a Free Pascal package.

Usage

Using the unit in your program

uses easycsv;

Reading a CSV file

Reading a CSV file is done with the class TCSVReader:

program ReadCSV;
uses easycsv;
var
   csv : TCSVReader;
   row : TCSVReader.TRow;
   i : Integer;
begin
   { Just show the csv file }
   csv := TCSVReader.Create('your-file.csv');
   for row in csv do begin
      for i := 0 to row.Count - 1 do begin
         if i > 0 then write(' ');
         write(row[i]);
      end;
      writeln;
   end;
   csv.Free;
end.

See the API-documentation for a more detailed overview of TCSVReader.

Writing a CSV file

Writing a CSV file is done with the class TCSVWriter:

program WriteCSV;
uses easycsv;
var
   csv : TCSVWriter;
   i : Integer;
begin
   csv := TCSVWriter.Create('your-file.csv');
   { Write a header line }
   csv.AddRow(['Nr', 'Random number']);
   { Write some random lines }
   for i := 1 to 10 do begin
      csv.AddRow([i, random(100)]);
   end;
   csv.Free;
end.

See the API-documentation for a more detailed overview of TCSVWriter.

Documentation

The homepage of the project is at https://chiselapp.com/user/fifr/repository/pas-easycsv.

All classes of EasyCSV are documented in the API Documentation

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