csvcleaner [OPTIONS]csvcleaner normalizes a CSV file based on the options selected. It helps to address issues like variable number of columns, leading/trailing spaces in columns, and non-UTF-8 encoding issues.
By default input is expected from standard in and output is sent to standard out (errors to standard error). These can be modified by appropriate options. The csv file is processed as a stream of rows so minimal memory is used to operate on the file.
Below are a set of options available.
-V, -verbose write verbose output to standard error
-comma if set use this character in place of a comma for delimiting cells
-comment-char if set, rows starting with this character will be ignored as comments
-examples display example(s)
-fields-per-row set the number of columns to output right padding empty cells as needed
-generate-manpage generation man page
-generate-markdown generation markdown documentation
-h, -help display help
-i, -input input filename
-l, -license display license
-left-trim left trim spaces on CSV out
-o, -output output filename
-output-comma if set use this character in place of a comma for delimiting output cells
-quiet suppress error messages
-reuse if false then a new array is allocated for each row processed, if true the array gets reused
-right-trim right trim spaces on CSV out
-stop-on-error exit on error, useful if you're trying to debug a problematic CSV file
-trim, -trim-spaces trim spaces on CSV out
-trim-leading-space trim leading space from field(s) for CSV input
-use-crlf if set use a charage return and line feed in output
-use-lazy-quotes use lazy quotes for CSV input
-v, -version display versionNormalizing a spread sheet’s column count to 5 padding columns as needed per row.
cat mysheet.csv | csvcleaner -field-per-row=5Trim leading spaces from output.
cat mysheet.csv | csvcleaner -left-trimTrim trailing spaces from output.
cat mysheet.csv | csvcleaner -right-trimTrim leading and trailing spaces from output.
cat mysheet.csv | csvcleaner -trim-spacecsvcleaner v0.0.25