FWF

A simple fixed width file parser for julia

maintained by @bkamins and @randomstring123

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Background

This package uses CSV.jl as an inspration and a code template for parsing fixed width data files and loading them into julia. It has the features

• Parse based on single bytes or utf-8 characters as unit type
• Data field conversion into Int, Missing, Float64, and Date types
• Line parsing and field parsing based on Int or UnitRange field widths.
• Ability to parse non-contigious fields.
• Supports DataStream Source functionality to enable streaming into a DataFrame...or anything that implements Sink.
• Robust missing value detection
• Skip or parse malformed rows without terminating parsing
• Custom header specifiction
• Start of file row skipping
• Autodetect column widths if there is a separator between them using scan function

Items of note the package does not support, but could if desired

• Column type detection
• Sink from DataStreams.

Installation

The package is registered in METADATA.jl and so can be installed with Pkg.add.

julia> Pkg.add("FWF")

Project Status

The package is tested against Julia 0.6 and (Currently Broken) nightly on Linux, OS X.

Contributing and Questions

Contributions are very welcome, as are feature requests and suggestions. Please open an issue if you encounter any problems or would just like to ask a question.