Sweet! Thanks for that. I work in the DO-178C arena and know what it takes to build bug-free, safety critical systems. It isn’t easy because it is ‘old school’ where most programmers just want to code.
You're quite welcome.
I work in the DO-178C arena and know what it takes to build bug-free, safety critical systems. It isn’t easy because it is ‘old school’ where most programmers just want to code.
Tell me about it — in my last job I was doing the backend of a system dealing with medical/insurance records (in PHP) and wrote an importation module that took a CSV file as input, I would not be surprised if that module is not the best commented in that company's code-base. Anyway, after everything was up and running we pushed it over to the production machine where it promptly failed. Turns out that the dev machine had a newer version of PHP, which had a CSV-parsing function, and the production machine did not. So I wrote my own CSV-parsing function pushed that to production and everything worked great.
Talking with the other main dev on that project about it later I got the response "Why not just use string-split? Done." … This data being things like names (Last, First), Addresses, lists... IOW, a non-parsing method would be (and is) wholly inadequate for all but the most trivial CSV-files. *sigh*