Read and write spreadsheets from and to files
containing comma separated values (CSV) in a lazy way.
See also the
csv package http://hackage.haskell.org/package/csv and
http://www.xoltar.org/languages/haskell.html,
http://www.xoltar.org/languages/haskell/CSV.hs.
Both do not parse lazy.
Reading from other source than plain Strings could be easily added.
If you install this package by
cabal install -fbuildExamples
then an example program is compiled and installed, too.
This program fills a template text using data from a CSV file.
E.g. given a file template.txt with content
Name: FIRSTNAME SURNAME
Born: BIRTH
and names.csv with content
"FIRSTNAME","SURNAME",BIRTH
"Georg","Cantor",1845
"Haskell","Curry",1900
"Ada","Lovelace",1815
the call
csvreplace template.txt <names.csv
produces the output
Name: Georg Cantor
Born: 1845
Name: Haskell Curry
Born: 1900
Name: Ada Lovelace
Born: 1815
You may also generate one file per CSV row in the following manner:
csvreplace --multifile=FIRSTNAME-SURNAME.txt template.txt <names.csv
For similar (non-Haskell) programs see cut, csvfix, csvtool.
