[CSV-206] Add support for String delimiters #76

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Labels: commons commons-csv csv csvparser
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: jefferyyuan
• Created: 11/Jan/17 06:08
• Updated: 07/Sep/21 03:20
• Resolved: 05/Jul/21 16:07

Description

It's not uncommon that we use multiple-characters delimiter to separate columns in CVS: such as: [|]

Sometimes, we have no choice as third-party defines the csv format like that.

It would be great if apache commons.csv supports this function.
I did some google search: seems there is no java library that supports use multiple-characters as the column separator.

But the C# CsvHelper does
https://github.com/JoshClose/CsvHelper

Issue Links

• relates to: CSV-288 String delimiter (||) is not working as expected.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #76