Change Log¶ ↑

Below is a complete listing of changes for each revision of FasterCSV.

1.5.5¶ ↑

• Removed setup.rb due to licensing concerns.

• Updated and clarified Copyright notices.

• Improved stray quoting error message (patch by Edvard Majakari).

• Improved line ending detection algorithm (patch by Alexey Smolianinov).

1.5.4¶ ↑

• Improved test coverage for the parser.

• Improved documentation.

• Fixed a bug that prevented ^ from being used as :quote_char.

• Switched from abort() to throwing exceptions on Ruby 1.9.

1.5.3¶ ↑

• A bug fix from Timothy Elliott to return the new parser to its strict quote tolerance.

1.5.2¶ ↑

• A bug fix to allow IO Exceptions to reach the calling code from Moses Hohman.

• Added support for :write_headers => false to Table.to_csv().

1.5.1¶ ↑

• A bug fix for deleting blank Table rows from Andy Hartford.

• Added gem build instructions.

1.5.0¶ ↑

• The main parser has been rewritten by Timothy Elliott to avoid big input issues with Ruby 1.8’s regex engine. This makes FasterCSV handle more inputs gracefully.

• FasterCSV will now exit with a notice to upgrade if required in Ruby 1.9.

• Included a missing file so the tests will run in source packages.

1.4.0¶ ↑

• Added encoding support patch from Michael Reinsch.

• Improved inspect() messages for better IRb support.

• Fixed header writing bug reported by Dov Murik.

• Use custom separators in parsing header Strings as suggested by Shmulik Regev.

• Added a :write_headers option for outputting headers.

• Handle open() calls in binary mode whenever we can to workaround a Windows issue where line-ending translation can cause an off-by-one error in seeking back to a non-zero starting position after auto-discovery for :row_sep as suggested by Robert Battle.

• Improved the parser to fail faster when fed some forms of invalid CSV that can be detected without reading ahead.

• Added a :field_size_limit option to control FasterCSV’s lookahead and prevent the parser from biting off more data than it can chew.

1.2.3¶ ↑

• Default to the system line ending when passed a GzipWriter object to wrap.

1.2.2¶ ↑

• Worked around GzipReader’s lack of a seek() method so we could still use automatic row separator detection with them.

1.2.1¶ ↑

• Worked around an odd incompatibility with the Regexps used to remove line endings in some (seemingly rare) Ruby environments.

• Made FasterCSV::lineno() writer aware.

• Support Hashes in FasterCSV#<<(), by detecting headers when writing.

• Added limited support for switching the quote character.

• Refining Data and DateTime matching for built-in convertors.

1.2.0¶ ↑

• Added the FasterCSV::table() shortcut.

1.1.1¶ ↑

• Added a :force_quotes output option.

1.1.0¶ ↑

• Added empty?(), length(), and size() methods to FasterCSV::Row and FasterCSV::Table.

• Cleaned up bug fix regression tests.

• Fixed bug causing Arrays to be returned for blank rows when header processing is active.

• Added a :skip_blanks option for ignoring empty rows.

1.0.0¶ ↑

• Fixed FasterCSV.rewind() to reset the FasterCSV.lineno() counter.

• Fixed FasterCSV.rewind() to reset the header processing.

• Fixed documentation typos.

• Switched STDOUT and STDERR usage to $stdout and $stderr where appropriate.

• Added FasterCSV::Row.==().

• Enhanced FasterCSV::Row.fields() to support Ranges, even for headers.

• The slurping methods now return the new FasterCSV::Table objects.

• Fixed parser so multibyte :col_sep works now.

• Added a few examples for usage.

0.2.1¶ ↑

• Removed autorequire from GemSpec.

• Made Rakefile VERSION aware.

• General Rakefile cleanup.

0.2.0¶ ↑

• Added VERSION constant.

• Significantly improved test speed.

• Worked around Date::parse() bug so tests will pass on Windows.

• Documented test procedure.

• Made FasterCSV.lineno() CSV aware.

• Added line numbers to MalformedCSVError messages.

• :headers can now be set to an Array of headers to use.

• :headers can now be set to an external CSV String of headers to use.

• Added an :unconverted_fields options, so those can be returned when needed.

• Provided support for the serialization of custom Ruby objects using CSV.

• Added CSV drop-in interface.

• Added header information to FieldInfo Struct for conversions by header.

• Added an alias to support require "fastercsv".

• Added FCSV alias for FasterCSV.

• Added FasterCSV::instance() and FasterCSV()/FCSV() shortcuts for easy output.

0.1.9¶ ↑

• Fixing the require “English” bug.

0.1.8¶ ↑

• Converted FasterCSV.filter() to use ARGF for input.

• Made FasterCSV.<<() aware of FasterCSV::Row objects.

• Switched header rows to include the unconverted headers as fields.

• Rescued IOError when trying to auto detect a line-ending on an output stream and used the default system line-ending.

• Added FasterCSV::Row.header_row?() and FasterCSV::Row.field_row?().

0.1.6¶ ↑

• Began using a forked development/stable versioning system.

• Reorganized initialization code for easier additions and maintenance.

• Added a check for unknown options. Exceptions will now be thrown for them.

• Added built-in and custom data converters. Built-in handle numbers and dates.

• Added Array#to_csv and String#parse_csv. Both accept normal options.

• Project moved to RubyForge Subversion.

• Added auto-discovery for :row_sep (now the default).

• Added FasterCSV::filter() for easy Unix-like CSV filters.

• Added support for accessing fields by headers.

  • Headers can have their own converters.

  • Headers can be skipped or returned as needed.

  • FasterCSV::Row allows index or header access while retaining order and allowing for duplicate headers.

0.1.4¶ ↑

• Fixed :col_sep escaping bug (reported by Kev Jackson).

• Switched to the use of named parsers internally.

0.1.3¶ ↑

• Fixed typo in gem spec causing a require bug.

0.1.2¶ ↑

• Built gem with Ruby 1.8.2, to bypass YAML/RubyGems issue.

0.1.1¶ ↑

• Built gem with Ruby 1.8.4 Preview 1, to try and bypass YAML/RubyGems issue.

• Added missing test file to released packages.

• Clarified call-seq documentation for open() and parse().

• Clarified passed String positions for new(), in documentation.

• Expanded generate() to handle appending to an existing String.

0.1.0¶ ↑

• Initial public release.