Saturday, January 20, 2018

Re: [NEW] textproc/p5-Text-CSV-Hashify

On 01/20/2018 04:24 AM, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:43:21PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote:
>> On 01/07/2018 10:50 PM, James E Keenan wrote:
>>> Hello ports@,
>>>
>>> Here is a new port, for Perl extension Text-CSV-Hashify (version 0.08).
>>>
>>> From DESCR:
>>>
>>> The Comma-Separated-Value ('CSV') format is the most common way to store
>>> spreadsheets or the output of relational database queries in plain-text
>>> format.  However, since commas (or other designated field-separator
>>> characters) may be embedded within data entries, the parsing of
>>> delimited records is non-trivial.  Fortunately, in Perl this parsing is
>>> well handled by CPAN distribution Text::CSV.  This permits us to address
>>> more specific data manipulation problems by building modules on top of
>>> Text::CSV.
>>>
>>> Text::CSV::Hashify is designed for the case where you simply want to
>>> turn a CSV file into a Perl hash.  In particular, it is designed for the
>>> case where (a) the CSV file's first record is a list of fields in the
>>> ancestral database table and (b) one field (column) functions as a
>>> primary key, i.e., each record's entry in that field is non-null and is
>>> distinct from every other record's entry therein.  Text::CSV::Hashify
>>> turns that kind of CSV file into one big hash of hashes.
>>>
>>> Text::CSV::Hashify can handle less typical cases; please consult the
>>> documentation for its other functionalities.
>>>
>>> Please review.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>> Jim Keenan
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ping on this new port; please review. Thank you very much.
>
> Port itself looks okay to me to import if anyone with commit access
> wants to do so, just beware of the PLIST.orig file in the tarball (cvs
> import will Ignore it anyway)
>
> Landry
>

Corrected tarball attached.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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