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On a recent project, I had to implement a CSV parser that would gracefully handle malformed files. I’m talking about files with unescaped quotes, wacky UTF-8 chars, and various other abominations of nature.
I originally assumed FasterCSV would handle this automagically, but it turns out that the library’s most commonly used methods are pretty strict when [...]
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