Simon Willison’s Weblog

12th December 2020

TIL Skipping CSV rows with odd numbers of quotes using ripgrep — I'm working with several huge CSV files - over 5 million rows total - and I ran into a problem: it turned out there were a few lines in those files that imported incorrectly because they were not correctly escaped.

Posted 12th December 2020 at 3:50 am

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