Ultra-fast, RFC 4180 compliant CSV library with configurable settings, smaller memory footprint, advanced API, and memory-saving features like row reuse and column ignoring. Supports reading/writing CSV with convenience methods.
kCSV is a port of the great FastCSV CSV library for Kotlin Multiplatform supporting all KMP targets: Java, iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, Linux, Windows, Node.js and JS Browser (Android should work with Android 8.0 (API level 26), but we haven't tested it).
It has all the features FastCSV has e.g.:
For all features see https://github.com/osiegmar/FastCSV#features
In addition to FastCSV, it also has these features:
reuseRowInstance)dependencies {
implementation "net.codinux.csv:kcsv:2.2.0"
}
Maven does not support automatic platform resolution as Gradle does, therefore the specific platform must be specified here:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.codinux.csv</groupId>
<artifactId>kcsv-jvm</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>
CsvReader().read("foo,1.0\nbar,2.0").forEach { row ->
println("${row[0]}: ${row.getDouble(1)}")
}
CsvReader(hasHeaderRow = true)
.read("Name,Age\nMahatma,78")
.forEach { row -> println("${row["Name"]}${row.getInt("Age")}") }
CsvReader has these settings, all are stated with their default value:
CsvReader(
fieldSeparator = ',',
hasHeaderRow = false,
quoteCharacter = '\"',
commentCharacter = '#',
commentStrategy = CommentStrategy.NONE,
skipEmptyRows = true,
reuseRowInstance = false,
ignoreColumns = emptySet(),
errorOnDifferentFieldCount = false,
ignoreInvalidQuoteChars = false
)
.read("""foo1,"bar1"\r\n#foo2,bar2""")
.forEach { row -> println(row) }
CsvReader(hasHeaderRow = true)
.read("Int,Double,Boolean,NullableLong\n42,3.14,true,")
.forEach { row ->
// of course works also with column indices instead of header names
println("Int: ${row.getInt("Int")}")
println("Double: ${row.getDouble("Double")}")
println("Boolean: ${row.getBoolean()}")
println()
}
Reading from File, InputStream, ... is only available on JVM (use e.g. kotlinx-io for other platforms to read CSV file to a string):
val file = Path("<path_to_csv_file>")
CsvReader()
.read(file, Charsets.UTF_8) // UTF_8 is the default charset
.forEach { row -> println(row.fields.joinToString()) }
For more example see CsvReaderExample.kt
val stringBuilder = StringBuilder()
CsvWriter.builder().writer(stringBuilder)
.writeRow("header1", "header2")
.writeRow("value1", "value2")
println(stringBuilder.toString())
val stringBuilder = StringBuilder()
val writer = CsvWriter.builder(
fieldSeparator = ';',
quoteCharacter = '\'',
quoteStrategy = QuoteStrategy.REQUIRED,
lineDelimiter = LineDelimiter.CRLF,
commentCharacter = '#'
).writer(stringBuilder)
writer
.writeRow("header1", "header2")
.writeRow("value;", "value2") // ';' gets quoted with '\''
println(stringBuilder.toString())
Writing to File, OutputStream, ... is currently only available on JVM (use e.g. kotlinx-io for other platforms):
val file = Path("<path_to_csv_file>")
CsvWriter.builder()
.writer(file, Charsets.UTF_8, StandardOpenOption.CREATE_NEW) // UTF_8 is the default charset
.writeRow("header1", "header2")
.writeRow("value1", "value2")
For more example see CsvWriterExample.kt
ignoreColumns)ignoreInvalidQuoteChars)row.getBoolean(5) or row.getIntOrNull("Age")Surfaced from shared tags and platforms — no rankings paid for.