csvd

This Golang library automatically detects the CSV delimiter and returns a *csv.Reader instance.

Caveats

This is quite a simple implementation, the following caveats should be considered:

The whole reader will be read into memory before returning the CSV reader, so it is not suitable for massive CSV's.
By default it checks for the following delimiters , \t ; : |, pass in a custom *csvd.Sniffer to change this.
It's not bullet proof! Quick and simple.

Usage

package main

import (
    "strings"

    "github.com/jfyne/csvd"
)

func main() {
    example := `first_name;last_name;username
"Rob";"Pike";rob
Ken;Thompson;ken
"Robert";"Griesemer";"gri"
`

    // Get regular "encoding/csv" with its delimiter detected.
    reader := csvd.NewReader(strings.NewReader(example))

    // reader.Comma will be ';' instead of the default. Use as usual
    reader.ReadAll()

    customDelimiter := `first_name$last_name$username
"Rob"$"Pike"$rob
Ken$Thompson$ken
"Robert"$"Griesemer"$"gri"
`
    // Create a custom Sniffer
    s := csvd.Sniffer(20, '$', '*')

    // Use the custom sniffer to parse the CSV
    reader2 := csvd.NewReader(strings.NewReader(customDelimiter), s)

    // reader2.Comma will be '$' now
    reader2.ReadAll()
}