NeoCSV is an elegant and efficient standalone Smalltalk framework to read and write CSV converting to or from Smalltalk objects.
MIT Licensed.
A chapter in the Enterprise Pharo book is a good introduction to NeoCSV.
Go ahead and read the NeoCSV paper.
Basically, NeoCSV deals with a format that
- is text based (ASCII, Latin1, Unicode)
- consists of records, 1 per line (any line ending convention)
- where records consist of fields separated by a delimiter (comma, tab, semicolon)
- where every record has the same number of fields
- where fields can be quoted should they contain separators or line endings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
You can load NeoCSV using Metacello
Metacello new
repository: 'github://svenvc/NeoCSV/repository';
baseline: 'NeoCSV';
load.You can use the following dependency from your own Metacello configuration or baseline
spec baseline: 'NeoCSV' with: [ spec repository: 'github://svenvc/NeoCSV/repository' ].