Nushell

from csv for formats

Parse text as .csv and create table.

Signature

> from csv --separator --comment --quote --escape --noheaders --flexible --no-infer --trim

Parameters

  • --separator {string}: a character to separate columns, defaults to ','
  • --comment {string}: a comment character to ignore lines starting with it
  • --quote {string}: a quote character to ignore separators in strings, defaults to '"'
  • --escape {string}: an escape character for strings containing the quote character
  • --noheaders (-n): don't treat the first row as column names
  • --flexible (-): allow the number of fields in records to be variable
  • --no-infer (-): no field type inferencing
  • --trim {string}: drop leading and trailing whitespaces around headers names and/or field values

Examples

Convert comma-separated data to a table

> "ColA,ColB
1,2" | from csv
╭───┬──────┬──────╮
│ # │ ColA │ ColB │
├───┼──────┼──────┤
│ 0 │    1 │    2 │
╰───┴──────┴──────╯

Convert comma-separated data to a table, ignoring headers

> open data.txt | from csv --noheaders

Convert semicolon-separated data to a table

> open data.txt | from csv --separator ';'

Convert comma-separated data to a table, ignoring lines starting with '#'

> open data.txt | from csv --comment '#'

Convert comma-separated data to a table, dropping all possible whitespaces around header names and field values

> open data.txt | from csv --trim all

Convert comma-separated data to a table, dropping all possible whitespaces around header names

> open data.txt | from csv --trim headers

Convert comma-separated data to a table, dropping all possible whitespaces around field values

> open data.txt | from csv --trim fields