15th February 2021
TIL
Using io.BufferedReader to peek against a non-peekable stream
— When building the [--sniff option](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/230) for `sqlite-utils insert` (which attempts to detect the correct CSV delimiter and quote character by looking at the first 2048 bytes of a CSV file) I had the need to peek ahead in an incoming stream of data.
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