Revision history for Perl extension Text::xSV.

0.01 Sat Mar 17 00:50:11 2001

• original version; posted to PerlMonks 0.02 Sat Mar 17 14:00:00 2001
• Fixed bug in presentation of double-quotes 0.03 Sun Apr 08 14:00:00 2001
• Made warnings safe 0.04 Mon Apr 16 23:10:00 EDT 2001
• Add filter
• Slightly improved warnings
• Put on CPAN 0.05 Sun Jun 3 10:00 2001
• Make empty unquoted strings null
• Fix bug that was hidden by a 5.005_03 bug
• Add success tests 0.06 Sat Nov 1 23:45:00 PST 2003
• Fix misnaming of bind_header in documentation
• Apply patch from Klaus Weidner <kw@w-m-p.com> for segmentation faults on large fields
• Switch to Module::Build
• Add alias, delete, get_fields.
• Add support for arbitrary computed fields with add_compute. 0.07 Mon Nov 3 8:30:00 PST 2003
• Hopefully fix caching test that was broken on Win32 (I strongly suspect due to different behaviour of "local"). The fix also avoids a theroetical bug that I had not thought through with multiple xSV objects whose computes call each other. 0.08 Sun Dec 7 11:49:39 PST 2003
• Made it ignore \r by default (helps nix users who are reading Windows files).
• Allow people to set arbitrary error handling routines.
• Added extract_hash and fetchrow_hash utility functions. I may add more of these later. 0.09 Mon Mar 15 02:00:00 PST 2004
• Fixed bug where row_size would reset on error. (Reported by Rob Kinyon.)
• Fixed false claim about Text::CSV.
• Made bind_headers an alias for bind_header.
• Made open_file not just be for reads. Documented it.
• Added set_row_size. Documented it.
• Gave reasonable defaults if both fh and filename are missing. Documented it.
• Made row_size warning optional with set_row_size_warning. per request from Chad Simmons. Documented it.
• Added format_ functions. Documented them.
• Added print_* functions. Documented them.

0.10 Mon Mar 15 09:00:00 PST 2004

• Forgot date on version 0.09.
• Empty string when saved and read would come back as undef. Fixed.

0.11 Tue Mar 16 08:00:00 PST 2004

• Fix set_sep redefinition bug caught by warnings.
• Remove = in a conditional warnings.
• Add -w to test.pl so that I won't miss future warnings. :-)
• Add set_warning_handler. Documented it.
• Documentation fixes.
• Added set_close_fh. Documented it. (May remove.)
• Added read_header and read_headers. Removed bind_headers. Documented bind_header as deprecated.

0.12 Tue Sep 28 08:14:03 PDT 2004

• Make sure that error_handler is set up before it might be called.
• Update my email address.
• Update the date on the copyright notice.

0.13 Tue Sep 28 08:35:57 PDT 2004

• Make the fallback fh be ARGV instead of STDIN. This is NOT backwards compatible. However it is a significantly more useful default. If I accidentally broke your script, I apologize. Tell me if I ever meet you and I'll owe you a beer or equivalent.

0.14 Sat Apr 10 00:20 PDT 2005

• Change Module::Build to use traditional rather than passthrough.
• Document internally why the "single character seperator" limit exists.
• Add a couple of tests.

0.15 Sun May 29 13:00 PDT 2005

• Apply patch from Gyepi SAM to prevent warning on fetchrow_hash at end of file.
• Point out that bind_headers does not have a consistent return. This is not a bug.
• Allow fetchrow_hash and extract_hash to take a list of arguments of the fields that you want extracted.

0.16 Tue Oct 2 17:33 PDT 2007

• Fix DESTROY bug reported by Fred Steinberg.

0.17 Thu Mar 12 18:00 PDT 2009

• Fix warning_handler bug reported by Carey Drake and Steve Caldwell.

0.18 Fri Mar 13 18:00 PDT 2009

• Fix silly bug in last patch.

0.19 Sun Jun 28 18:00 PDT 2009

• Add dont_quote and quote_all as suggested by Geoff Gariepy.

0.20 Sat Jul 18 18:00 PDT

• Add patch from Ryan Martin to improve read performance over 75%.

0.21 Mon Nov 2 23:18:44 PST 2009

• Add ability to parse in non-strict mode.