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CSVParser.java doesn't handle empty fields

           Summary: CSVParser.java doesn't handle empty fields
           Product: Turbine
           Version: 2.1 final
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: TDK
        AssignedTo: turbine-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: siyer1@yahoo.com


If a comma separated file has empty fields - ie those
with no value between the commas such as ,, the parser
reads all of the commas as white space and gets the next
non-empty field as the value of the token.

This bug is caused by StreamTokenizer's treatment of whitespace.

Various suggestions for fixing this:
1) Rewrite without using StreamTokenizer
2) Do not call the whitespaceChars function of StreamTokenizer, and
   instead of using StreamTokenizer's nextToken() function, write
   a nextToken function that uses the StreamTokenizer's nextToken function
   while handling ",," appropriately.
3) Create a new Reader that replaces all ,, with ,"",

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