September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 2m
English
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Handling unexpected fields
The preceding methods work fine with clean CSV data, but, in general, we don't encounter clean data. We have to parse messy data. For example, you might find unexpected fields or numbers of fields in your CSV records. This is why reader.FieldsPerRecord exists. This field of the reader value lets us easily handle messy data, as follows:
4.3,3.0,1.1,0.1,Iris-setosa5.8,4.0,1.2,0.2,Iris-setosa5.7,4.4,1.5,0.4,Iris-setosa5.4,3.9,1.3,0.4,blah,Iris-setosa5.1,3.5,1.4,0.3,Iris-setosa5.7,3.8,1.7,0.3,Iris-setosa5.1,3.8,1.5,0.3,Iris-setosa
This version of the iris.csv file has an extra field in one of the rows. We know that each record should have five fields, so let's set our reader.FieldsPerRecord value to 5:
// We should ...
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