Re: [Help-glpk] comments in csv data files

[Hannes Planatscher]

Dear Andrew,

> I found that it would be convenient to allow comment lines in csv data
> files read from mathprog models thru the table statement. Unfortunately,
> the RFC document 4180 that specifies the csv format says nothing about
> such a feature.


this extension would certainly be useful for annotating datasets. On the other 
hand other applications processing csv data would be unable to parse such files 
correctly. At least it would lead to unpredictable behavior in some cases.

Best regards,
Hannes