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different quoting behavior, depending on whitespace #668

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ijlyttle opened this issue May 6, 2017 · 3 comments
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different quoting behavior, depending on whitespace #668

ijlyttle opened this issue May 6, 2017 · 3 comments
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@ijlyttle
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ijlyttle commented May 6, 2017

Sometimes I will write out a small csv by hand - by habit I will put a space after a comma:

"foo", "bar"
"a", "b"

When I read_csv() this, it parses inconsistently.

However, if I take out the whitespace, it parses as I expect:

"foo","bar"
"a","b"

Reprex:

library("readr")

read_csv('"foo","bar"\n"a","b"\n')
#> # A tibble: 1 × 2
#>     foo   bar
#>   <chr> <chr>
#> 1     a     b

read_csv('"foo", "bar"\n"a", "b"\n')
#> # A tibble: 1 × 2
#>     foo `"bar"`
#>   <chr>   <chr>
#> 1     a     "b"

Does this rise to the level of bug? Also, may be similar to #238.

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jennybc commented Aug 26, 2017

I'm running up against this too. It's especially damaging if you're using the quotes to protect embedded commas. Also: something is off with the printing of the problems?

library(readr)
read.csv(text = 'x,y\n1,\"hi,there\"\n3,4')
#>   x        y
#> 1 1 hi,there
#> 2 3        4
read_csv('x,y\n1,\"hi,there\"\n3,4')
#> # A tibble: 2 x 2
#>       x        y
#>   <int>    <chr>
#> 1     1 hi,there
#> 2     3        4
  
read.csv(text = 'x,y\n1, \"hi,there\"\n3,4')
#>   x         y
#> 1 1  hi,there
#> 2 3         4
read_csv('x,y\n1, \"hi,there\"\n3,4')
#> Warning in rbind(names(probs), probs_f): number of columns of result is not
#> a multiple of vector length (arg 2)
#> Warning: 1 parsing failure.
#> row # A tibble: 1 x 5 col     row   col  expected    actual         file expected   <int> <chr>     <chr>     <chr>        <chr> actual 1     1  <NA> 2 columns 3 columns literal data file # A tibble: 1 x 5
#> # A tibble: 2 x 2
#>       x      y
#>   <int>  <chr>
#> 1     1 "\"hi"
#> 2     3      4

@jimhester jimhester added the bug an unexpected problem or unintended behavior label Dec 7, 2017
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@jimhester Thanks!

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