Parse CSV file in C

Question

Is there a library that I can use to parse CSV files in C. I am on a Linux system. I know about this , but it is in C ++, and I need something in C. I don't want to feel the pain of debugging and testing if someone has already done this.

Answer 1

Check out libcsv , which is a CSV library written in ANSI C89.

Answer 2

There is a simple library of CSV parsers described in the excellent book "Programming Practices" by Kernighan and Pike , and the source is available from the site linked to.

Answer 3

CSV parsing is not too complicated, depending on the structure of the CSV, look at the strtok function .