I'd like to take a CSV file living server-side and display it dynamically as an html table. E.g., this:
Name, Age, Sex
"Cantor, Georg", 163, M
should become this:
<html><body><table>
<tr> <td>Name</td> <td>Age</td> <td>Sex</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Cantor, Georg</td> <td>163</td> <td>M</td> </td>
</table></body></html>
Solutions in any language are welcome.
Does it work if you escape the quoted commas with \ ?
Name, Age, Sex
"Cantor\, Georg", 163,M
Most delimited formats require that their delimiter be escaped in order to properly parse.
A rough Java example:
import java.util.Iterator;
public class CsvTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String[] lines = { "Name, Age, Sex", "\"Cantor, Georg\", 163, M" };
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for (String head : iterator(lines[0])) {
result.append(String.format("<tr>%s</tr>\n", head));
}
for (int i=1; i < lines.length; i++) {
for (String row : iterator(lines[i])) {
result.append(String.format("<td>%s</td>\n", row));
}
}
System.out.println(String.format("<table>\n%s</table>", result.toString()));
}
public static Iterable<String> iterator(final String line) {
return new Iterable<String>() {
public Iterator<String> iterator() {
return new Iterator<String>() {
private int position = 0;
public boolean hasNext() {
return position < line.length();
}
public String next() {
boolean inquote = false;
StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
for (; position < line.length(); position++) {
char c = line.charAt(position);
if (c == '"') {
inquote = !inquote;
}
if (c == ',' && !inquote) {
position++;
break;
} else {
buffer.append(c);
}
}
return buffer.toString().trim();
}
public void remove() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
};
}
};
}
}
The previously linked solution is a horrible piece of code; nearly every line contains a bug. Use fgetcsv instead:
<?php
echo "<html><body><table>\n\n";
$f = fopen("so-csv.csv", "r");
while (($line = fgetcsv($f)) !== false) {
echo "<tr>";
foreach ($line as $cell) {
echo "<td>" . htmlspecialchars($cell) . "</td>";
}
echo "<tr>\n";
}
fclose($f);
echo "\n</table></body></html>";
define "display it dynamically" ? that implies the table is being built via javascript and some sort of Ajax-y update .. if you just want to build the table using PHP that's really not what I would call 'dynamic'