Online documentation for CSVFileReader

Generated 2006-03-17

Reads from a CSV (ie comma-seperated) file

Description

The CSVFileReader is capable of reading from a comma-seperated file, as might be exported by Excel for example. It can parse files whose first line is a comma-seperated list of column headers, or those which do not define column headers.

Configuration

Set property configFileName to the full path of your file. It is probably best to use forward slash characters in this rather than backslash characters eg d:/data/datafile.csv rather than d:\data\datafile.csv. Then set the configured property to true. If the file exists, it will be loaded into the component, and an indication of the number of rows and columns of data it contains will be given through the rowCount and columnCount properties.

Usage

Once you have configured the component with a file, then there are several ways to access the data it contains: