EMAIL PARSER FOR REAL GEEKS PORTABLE

Supports stripping off control characters.

Supports trimming the strings of a column.

Supports the ability to enforce the number of columns based on the first row.

Supports the ability to enforce the number of columns to a specific number.

Supports the ability to dynamically add more columns to match the data.

Supports ignoring/including rows that contain no characters.

Supports escaped text qualifiers by doubling them up.

Supports a custom text qualifier to allow column/row delimiters to be ignored (e.g., multi-line data).

Supports escape characters (single character only).

Supports comment rows (single character marker).

Supports a custom delimiter character (single character only).

Supports delimited and fixed-width formats.

Memory: Approximately equal to or less than any Microsoft provided solution.

Time: Approximately 3 to 10 times faster than any Microsoft provided solution.

Efficient - See Benchmarking below for more details.

The GenericParser (and the derived GenericParserAdapter) contains the following features:

Fixed-width data - Data whose columns are of a set number of characters wide.

Delimited data - Data whose columns are separated by a specific character (e.g., CSV - Comma Separated Values).

Note: The project was built using Visual Studio 2010, but the code is designed for.

The code is well organized and easy to follow to allow modification as necessary. As shown below, the GenericParser is a good replacement for any Microsoft provided solution and provides some unique functionality.

EMAIL PARSER FOR REAL GEEKS PORTABLE

For a project at work, I needed a portable solution that was efficient, had minimal external requirements, and parsed delimited and fixed-width data. We, as developers, are often faced with converting data from one format to another.

Email parser for real geeks