I need to read a CSV file with a trailing comma at the end of each line:
column1,column2, // header
value1,value2, // values
Note that the CSV file has only two columns. However the trailing comma at the end makes CsvHelper
think there are 3 columns. Is there any option to tell CsvHelper
to ignore the trailing comma?
// embedded file content in code to make this example complete
// and easy to execute/test for others
string input =
"""
headerColumn1,headerColumn2,
dataValue1,dataValue2,
""";
var encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
var ms = new MemoryStream(encoding.GetBytes(input));
var streamReader = new StreamReader(ms);
var config = new CsvConfiguration(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
{
HasHeaderRecord = true,
};
using var csvReader = new CsvReader(streamReader, config);
csvReader.Read();
var numberOfColumns = csvReader.Parser.Record.Length;
Console.WriteLine
(
// output: number of detected columns: 3
// note that the input only contains two columns
// and a trailing comma
$"number of detected columns: {numberOfColumns}"
);