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authorIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>2016-05-24 11:39:48 -0700
committerIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>2016-05-25 01:47:53 +0000
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encoding/csv: clarify that this package supports RFC 4180
The intent of this comment is to reduce the number of issues opened against the package to add support for new kinds of CSV formats, such as issues #3150, #8458, #12372, #12755. Change-Id: I452c0b748e4ca9ebde3e6cea188bf7774372148e Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/23401 Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/encoding/csv/reader.go b/src/encoding/csv/reader.go
index 5d5e3e5bf7..89283bb303 100644
--- a/src/encoding/csv/reader.go
+++ b/src/encoding/csv/reader.go
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Package csv reads and writes comma-separated values (CSV) files.
+// There are many kinds of CSV files; this package supports the format
+// described in RFC 4180.
//
// A csv file contains zero or more records of one or more fields per record.
// Each record is separated by the newline character. The final record may