[ARROW-12661] [C++] CSV add skip rows after column names

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: csv pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/28410
• Assignee: Nate Clark
• Reporter: Nate Clark
• Created: 05/May/21 20:08
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:27
• Resolved: 07/Jun/21 15:51

Description

Some programs generate csv files with additional descriptive information about the columns on a row after the names. For files like this it would be nice to have an option which reads the first row as column names and then can skip those rows after the names.

This could probably be implemented easily as either another option parallel ReadOptions::skip_rows or a boolean which indicates if skipping should occur before or after the column names are read.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10255