infos = Information about the csvstorage plugin is in keys below
infos/author = Thomas Waser thoma.nosp@m.s.wa.nosp@m.ser@l.nosp@m.ibel.nosp@m.ektra.nosp@m..org
infos/licence = BSD
infos/provides = storage/csv
infos/needs =
infos/recommends =
infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
infos/status = productive maintained unittest nodep libc configurable
infos/description = parses csv files

This plugin allows you to read and write CSV files within Elektra. It aims to be compatible with RFC 4180. Rows and columns are written in Elektra arrays (#0, #1,..). Using configuration you can give columns a name.

Configuration

delimiter Tells the plugin what delimiter is used in the file. The default delimiter is , and will be used if delimiter is not set.

header Tells the plugin to use the first line as a header if it's set to "colname". The columns will get the corresponding names. Skip the first line if it's set to "skip" or treat the first line as a record if it's set to "record". If header is not set, or set to "record", the columns get named #0,#1,... (array key naming)

columns If this key is set the plugin will yield an error for every file that doesn't have exactly the amount of columns as specified in columns.

columns/names Sets the column names. Only usable in combination with the columns key. The number of subkeys must match the number of columns. Conflicts with usage of header.

Examples

First line should determine the headers:

kdb mount test.csv /csv csvstorage "delimiter=;,header=colname,columns=2,columns/names,columns/names/#0=col0Name,columns/names/#1=col1Name"

Limitations

Does not work on file streams (e.g. kdb import without file)