ultra-csv

A smart reader for CSV files.

Features

Smart statistical heuristics to guess pretty much anything about your csv file, from delimiter to quotes and whether a header is present
Handles for you the boring but dangerous stuff, like encoding detection and bom skipping if present, but also embedded new lines and quote escaping
Uses [Prismatic Schema][https://github.com/Prismatic/schema] to coerce the numerical values that have been recognised. The types and coercions can be extended by the user to dates, phone numbers, etc. and the inputs can be validated
Designed to be both very easy to use in an exploratory way to get a quick feel for the data, and then be put into production with almost the same code
Special tools to use the parsing features of ultra-csv inside environments where you access the data line by line as Strings, like Hadoop

ultra-csv is available as a Maven artifact from Clojars:

In your project.clj dependencies for leiningen:

[ultra-csv "0.2.0"]

(def csv-seq (ultra-csv/read-csv "/my/path/to.csv"))

Add writer functionality with roud-tripping capability
Add some kind of integration with [Incanter][http://incanter.org/] to easily produce Datasets
If possible, add more Type detections (dates perhaps?)

Pull Requests welcome!

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.