csv_tokenizer.hh

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/*!
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Technical University of Liberec.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the
 * Free Software Foundation. (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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 * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *
 * @file    csv_tokenizer.hh
 * @brief
 */
 
#ifndef CSV_TOKENIZER_HH_
#define CSV_TOKENIZER_HH_
 
#include <system/tokenizer.hh>
 
/**
 * @brief Simple class for parsing CSV files.
 *
 * CSV tokenizer use backslash '\\' as the escape character, double quotas '"' as quotation
 * character, and comma ',' as the separator of tokens.
 */
class CSVTokenizer : public Tokenizer {
public:
    /**
     * Opens a file given by file path @p fp. And construct the CSV tokenizer over the
     * input stream for this file.
     */
    CSVTokenizer(const FilePath &fp, std::string field_separator = ",");
 
    /**
     * @brief Construct the CSV tokenizer over given input stream @p in.
     *
     * @code CSVTokenizer( ifstream("my_file") );
     *
     */
    CSVTokenizer(std::istream &in, std::string field_separator = ",");
 
    /// Get count of lines in CSV file.
    unsigned int get_n_lines();
 
    /**
     * @brief Skip header lines of CSV file.
     *
     * @param n_head_lines number of head lines given by user
     */
    void skip_header(unsigned int n_head_lines);
 
    /// Cast token on actual position to integer value and return its.
    int get_int_val();
 
    /// Cast token on actual position to double value and return its.
    double get_double_val();
 
    /// Return string value of token on actual position.
    std::string get_string_val();
};
 
#endif /* CSV_TOKENIZER_HH_ */