/* * [CSVTabToComma.java] * * Summary: Converts tab-separated CSV file to a comma-separated CSV file. * * Copyright: (c) 2008-2017 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products, http://mindprod.com * * Licence: This software may be copied and used freely for any purpose but military. * http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html * * Requires: JDK 1.8+ * * Created with: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA IDE http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ * * Version History: * 2.9 2000-03-27 refactor using enums, support comments. * 3.0 2009-06-15 lookup table to speed CSVReader * 3.1 2009-12-03 add CSVSort * 3.2 2010-02-23 add hex sort 9x+ option to CSVSort * 3.3 2010-11-14 change default to no comments in input file for CSVTab2Comma. * 3.4 2010-12-03 add CSV2SRS * 3.5 2010-12-11 add CSVReshape * 3.6 2011-01-25 allow you to specify encoding */ package com.mindprod.csv; import com.mindprod.common18.EIO; import com.mindprod.hunkio.HunkIO; import java.io.EOFException; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.nio.charset.Charset; import static java.lang.System.*; /** * Converts tab-separated CSV file to a comma-separated CSV file. *

* Use: java.exe com.mindprod.CSVTabToComma somefile.csv * * @author Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products * @version 3.6 2011-01-25 allow you to specify encoding * @see CSVTabToComma * @since 2008-05-28 */ public final class CSVTabToComma { /** * covert a tab-delimited to comma -delimited CSV file, constructor. Just create. There are no methods to call. * Tab-separated files no not support comments, so there is no need for a commentChars field. * * @param fileBeingProcessed CSV file be converted * @param separatorChar field separator character in output usually ',' in North America, * ';' in Europe and sometimes '\t' for * tab for the output file. It is tab for the input file. * Note this is a 'char' not a "string". * @param quoteChar character used to quote fields in output containing awkward chars. * @param encoding encoding of input and output. * * @throws IOException if problems reading/writing file */ @SuppressWarnings( { "WeakerAccess" } ) public CSVTabToComma( final File fileBeingProcessed, final char separatorChar, final char quoteChar, final Charset encoding ) throws IOException { // reader, separatorChar, quoteChar, commentChars, hideComments, trimQuoted, trimUnquoted, // allowMultipleLineFields // are no comments in tab file final CSVReader r = new CSVReader( EIO.getBufferedReader( fileBeingProcessed, 64 * 1024, encoding ), '\t', ( char ) 0 /* no " char */, "" /* no comment chars in tab files */, false /* hide comments */, true /* trimQuoted */, true /* trimUnquoted */, true /* allowMultipleLineFields */ ); final File tempFile = HunkIO.createTempFile( "temp_", ".tmp", fileBeingProcessed ); // writer, quoteLevel, separatorChar, quoteChar, commentChar, trim final PrintWriter pw = EIO.getPrintWriter( tempFile, 32 * 1024, encoding ); // there are no comments. final CSVWriter w = new CSVWriter( pw, 0 /* minimal */, separatorChar, quoteChar, ( char ) 0, true ); try { while ( true ) { final String s = r.get(); // null means end of line if ( r.wasComment() ) { w.nl( s ); r.skipToNextLine(); } else { // null will start a new line. w.put( s ); } } } catch ( EOFException e ) { out.println( r.lineCount() + " tabbed lines expanded." ); r.close(); w.close(); HunkIO.deleteAndRename( tempFile, fileBeingProcessed ); } } /** * Simple command line interface to CSVTabToComma, Converts tabs to commas is csv file whose name is on the * command line. Must have * extension .csv
Use java com.mindprod.CSVTabToComma somefile.csv . You can use CSVTabToComma constructor * in your own programs. * * @param args name of csv file to remove excess quotes and space */ public static void main( String[] args ) { if ( args.length != 1 ) { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "CSVTabToComma needs a single filename.csv on the command line." ); } String filename = args[ 0 ]; if ( !filename.endsWith( ".csv" ) ) { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Bad Extension\nCSVTabToComma needs a single filename.csv on the command line." ); } final File file = new File( filename ); try { // file, separatorChar, quoteChar, commentChar // presume there are no comments in the tab file // fileBeingProcessed, separatorChar, quoteChar, encoding // no comments permitted in tab file no no need to specify. new CSVTabToComma( file, ',', '\"', CSV.UTF8 ); } catch ( IOException e ) { err.println(); e.printStackTrace( err ); err.println( "CSVTabToComma failed to convert " + EIO.getCanOrAbsPath( file ) ); err.println(); } } // end main }