Hands-On Machine Learning with C++

Reading CSV files with the Fast-CPP-CSV-Parser library

Consider how to deal with CSV format in C++. There are many different libraries for parsing CSV format with C++. They have different sets of functions and different ways to integrate into applications. The easiest way to use C++ libraries is to use headers-only libraries because this eliminates the need to build and link them. We propose to use the Fast-CPP-CSV-Parser library because it is a small single-file header-only library with the minimal required functionality, which can be easily integrated into a development code base.

As an example of a CSV file format, we use the Iris dataset, which describes three different types of iris plants and was conceived by R.A. Fisher. Each row in ...