The following code is in plain c language and handles blank spaces. It only allocates memory once, so one free() is needed, for each processed line.
/* Tiny CSV Reader */
/* Copyright (C) 2015, Deligiannidis Konstantinos
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://w...content-available-to-author-only...u.org/licenses/>. */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/* For more that 100 columns or lines (when delimiter = \n), minor modifications are needed. */
int getcols( const char * const line, const char * const delim, char ***out_storage )
{
const char *start_ptr, *end_ptr, *iter;
char **out;
int i; //For "for" loops in the old c style.
int tokens_found = 1, delim_size, line_size; //Calculate "line_size" indirectly, without strlen() call.
int start_idx[100], end_idx[100]; //Store the indexes of tokens. Example "Power;": loc('P')=1, loc(';')=6
//Change 100 with MAX_TOKENS or use malloc() for more than 100 tokens. Example: "b1;b2;b3;...;b200"
if ( *out_storage != NULL ) return -4; //This SHOULD be NULL: Not Already Allocated
if ( !line || !delim ) return -1; //NULL pointers Rejected Here
if ( (delim_size = strlen( delim )) == 0 ) return -2; //Delimiter not provided
start_ptr = line; //Start visiting input. We will distinguish tokens in a single pass, for good performance.
//Then we are allocating one unified memory region & doing one memory copy.
while ( ( end_ptr = strstr( start_ptr, delim ) ) ) {
start_idx[ tokens_found -1 ] = start_ptr - line; //Store the Index of current token
end_idx[ tokens_found - 1 ] = end_ptr - line; //Store Index of first character that will be replaced with
//'\0'. Example: "arg1||arg2||end" -> "arg1\0|arg2\0|end"
tokens_found++; //Accumulate the count of tokens.
start_ptr = end_ptr + delim_size; //Set pointer to the next c-string within the line
}
for ( iter = start_ptr; (*iter!='\0') ; iter++ );
start_idx[ tokens_found -1 ] = start_ptr - line; //Store the Index of current token: of last token here.
end_idx[ tokens_found -1 ] = iter - line; //and the last element that will be replaced with \0
line_size = iter - line; //Saving CPU cycles: Indirectly Count the size of *line without using strlen();
int size_ptr_region = (1 + tokens_found)*sizeof( char* ); //The size to store pointers to c-strings + 1 (*NULL).
out = (char**) malloc( size_ptr_region + ( line_size + 1 ) + 5 ); //Fit everything there...it is all memory.
//It reserves a contiguous space for both (char**) pointers AND string region. 5 Bytes for "Out of Range" tests.
*out_storage = out; //Update the char** pointer of the caller function.
//"Out of Range" TEST. Verify that the extra reserved characters will not be changed. Assign Some Values.
//char *extra_chars = (char*) out + size_ptr_region + ( line_size + 1 );
//extra_chars[0] = 1; extra_chars[1] = 2; extra_chars[2] = 3; extra_chars[3] = 4; extra_chars[4] = 5;
for ( i = 0; i < tokens_found; i++ ) //Assign adresses first part of the allocated memory pointers that point to
out[ i ] = (char*) out + size_ptr_region + start_idx[ i ]; //the second part of the memory, reserved for Data.
out[ tokens_found ] = (char*) NULL; //[ ptr1, ptr2, ... , ptrN, (char*) NULL, ... ]: We just added the (char*) NULL.
//Now assign the Data: c-strings. (\0 terminated strings):
char *str_region = (char*) out + size_ptr_region; //Region inside allocated memory which contains the String Data.
memcpy( str_region, line, line_size ); //Copy input with delimiter characters: They will be replaced with \0.
//Now we should replace: "arg1||arg2||arg3" with "arg1\0|arg2\0|arg3". Don't worry for characters after '\0'
//They are not used in standard c lbraries.
for( i = 0; i < tokens_found; i++) str_region[ end_idx[ i ] ] = '\0';
//"Out of Range" TEST. Wait until Assigned Values are Printed back.
//for ( int i=0; i < 5; i++ ) printf("c=%x ", extra_chars[i] ); printf("\n");
// *out memory should now contain (example data):
//[ ptr1, ptr2,...,ptrN, (char*) NULL, "token1\0", "token2\0",...,"tokenN\0", 5 bytes for tests ]
// |__________________________________^ ^ ^ ^
// |_______________________________________| | |
// |_____________________________________________| These 5 Bytes should be intact.
return tokens_found;
}
int main()
{
char in_line[] = "Arg1;;Th;s is not Del;m;ter;;Arg3;;;;Final";
char delim[] = ";;";
char **columns;
int i;
printf("Example1:\n");
columns = NULL; //Should be NULL to indicate that it is not assigned to allocated memory. Otherwise return -4;
int cols_found = getcols( in_line, delim, &columns);
for ( i = 0; i < cols_found; i++ ) printf("Column[ %d ] = %s\n", i, columns[ i ] ); //<- (1st way).
// (2nd way) // for ( i = 0; columns[ i ]; i++) printf("start_idx[ %d ] = %s\n", i, columns[ i ] );
free( columns ); //Release the Single Contiguous Memory Space.
columns = NULL; //Pointer = NULL to indicate it does not reserve space and that is ready for the next malloc().
printf("\n\nExample2, Nested:\n\n");
char example_file[] = "ID;Day;Month;Year;Telephone;email;Date of registration\n"
"1;Sunday;january;2009;123-124-456;[email protected];2015-05-13\n"
"2;Monday;March;2011;(+30)333-22-55;[email protected];2009-05-23";
char **rows;
int j;
rows = NULL; //getcols() requires it to be NULL. (Avoid dangling pointers, leaks e.t.c).
getcols( example_file, "\n", &rows);
for ( i = 0; rows[ i ]; i++) {
{
printf("Line[ %d ] = %s\n", i, rows[ i ] );
char **columnX = NULL;
getcols( rows[ i ], ";", &columnX);
for ( j = 0; columnX[ j ]; j++) printf(" Col[ %d ] = %s\n", j, columnX[ j ] );
free( columnX );
}
}
free( rows );
rows = NULL;
return 0;
}