[jira] [Commented] (CSV-155) Get remaining unformatted text

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

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Gary Gregory commented on CSV-155:
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Patches with unit tests are welcome :-)

Make sure you base your work on the latest from source repo.

> Get remaining unformatted text
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CSV-155
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-155
>             Project: Commons CSV
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Parser
>    Affects Versions: 1.1
>            Reporter: Jason Steenstra-Pickens
>
> I have the requirement where I need to parse the headers of a CSV string so that I can validate them and then remove those headers.
> The problem is that the CSVParser creates an internal ExtendedBufferedReader from the given reader (which in my case is a StringReader). Reading the first record will read and buffer additional records so if I then try and read directly from the StringReader it does not return anything.
> To solve this I need to be able to do one of the following:
> # pass in my own ExtendedBufferedReader (so would need to be made public)
> # have a new getter method to be able to retrieve the internal ExtendedBufferedReader (or as a BufferedReader, either will do)
> # have a new method on the CSVParser to be able to retrieve the remaining raw records.
> The current workaround is to read all the records and then write all the records except the first back out to a StringWriter but this is a lot of unnecessary work and code. This doesn't really work since it reader and writing it back out has a very high chance of modifying the quotes, escapes, whitespace etc.



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