[jira] [Commented] (CSV-141) Handle malformed CSV files

["Gary D. Gregory (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gary D. Gregory commented on CSV-141:
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Note that if you use Excel to import the example in the description, you are asking for trouble, per Excel's warning:

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> Handle malformed CSV files
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: CSV-141
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-141
>             Project: Commons CSV
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Parser
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Nguyen Minh
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.x
>
>         Attachments: image-2023-01-04-14-00-57-158.png
>
>
> My java application has to handle thousands of CSV files uploaded by the client phones everyday. So, there some CSV files have the wrong format which I'm not sure why.
> Here is my sample CSV. Microsoft Excel parses it correctly, but both Common CSV and OpenCSV can't parse it. Open CSV can't parse line 2 (due to '\' character) and Common CSV will crash on line 3 and 4:
> "1414770317901","android.widget.EditText","pass sem1 _84*|*","0","pass sem1 _8"
> "1414770318470","android.widget.EditText","pass sem1 _84:*|*","0","pass sem1 _84:\"
> "1414770318327","android.widget.EditText","pass sem1 
> "1414770318628","android.widget.EditText","pass sem1 _84*|*","0","pass sem1
> Line 3: java.io.IOException: (line 5) invalid char between encapsulated token and delimiter
> 	at org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser$1.getNextRecord(CSVParser.java:398)
> 	at org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser$1.hasNext(CSVParser.java:407)
> Line 4: java.io.IOException: (startline 5) EOF reached before encapsulated token finished
> 	at org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser$1.getNextRecord(CSVParser.java:398)
> 	at org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser$1.hasNext(CSVParser.java:407)



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