PipeWriter and writing untyped data

[georgiosd]

Hey!

Congrats on writing the go-to CSV library in .NET :)

Two questions on your roadmap:

• Any intentions to support PipeWriter?

• Any intentions to support writing untyped data? (e.g. string array)

[JoshClose]

Any intentions to support PipeWriter?

Not at this time no. What advantages would it have? Would using the PipeWriter.AsStream method work just as well?

Any intentions to support writing untyped data? (e.g. string array)

You can get the row as a string[] from the parser. If you're using CsvReader you can get reader.Parser.Record or if using the CsvParser directly, parser.Record.

[georgiosd]

I think it's supposed to be faster. Will it matter for this? Maybe not.

Re untyped data, I was asking about writing, not reading.

[JoshClose]

I think it's supposed to be faster. Will it matter for this? Maybe not.

I haven't looked into it for writing. Writing definitely isn't optimized.

Re untyped data, I was asking about writing, not reading.

Probably not. It's easy enough to do it by hand.

foreach (var record in records)
{
    foreach (var field in record)
    {
        csv.WriteField(field);
    }
    csv.NextRecord();
}

[georgiosd]

Ah, I didn't know you could do this! Thanks!