csvcut

As a learning exercise to get to know zig I build a small command line tool that works like the cut utility but uses the header to identify columns additionaly to indices and has some extra functionality build in.

Feedback from more experienced zig developers is very welcome. If you find any bug or you see some non-idiomatic costructs please let me know.

Usage

see src/USAGE.txt

Licence

csvcut is licensed under the MIT license

see LICENSE.txt

Build requirements

To build csvcut you just need the zig compiler, which can be downloaded from https://ziglang.org/download/ Currently zig 0.13.0 is supported, builds might break in never versions. There is no installation needed, just download the package for your operating system an extract the archive and add it to your PATH

Windows example

execute following commands in a windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe)

curl https://ziglang.org/download/0.13.0/zig-windows-x86_64-0.13.0.zip --output zig.zip
tar -xf zig.zip
del zig.zip
move zig-windows-x86_64* zig
set PATH=%cd%\zig;%PATH%

Linux example

execute following commands in a shell

curl https://ziglang.org/download/0.12.0/zig-linux-x86_64-0.12.0.tar.xz --output zig.tar.xz
tar -xf zig.tar.xz
rm zig.tar.xz
mv zig-linux-x86_64* zig
export PATH=$(pwd)/zig:$PATH

Build

If you have zig installed and on your PATH just cd into the directory and execute zig build The first build takes a while and when it's finished you'll find the executeable (csvcut or csvcut.exe) in zig-out/bin/ You can run the built-in uinit tests with zig build test If everything is ok you will see no output. Use zig build -Doption=ReleaseFast to build a release version optimized for speed.