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Matching the extra columns specified in col_types #145

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byzheng opened this issue Apr 21, 2015 · 1 comment · Fixed by #159
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Matching the extra columns specified in col_types #145

byzheng opened this issue Apr 21, 2015 · 1 comment · Fixed by #159

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@byzheng
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byzheng commented Apr 21, 2015

I would like to specify the column types using arguments col_types when I read the csv files. However, the column number could be different in my multiple csv files (Some files include extra column).

When I specify extra column types and get an error messages:

Error: The following named parsers don't match the column names: sow_date1

It will be better to let us to specify extra columns for flexibility (or give a warning message).

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alyst commented May 2, 2015

+1. read_xxx() should not stop if there are no problems with the table format or type specification for existing columns. With the current behaviour it's hard to read the files with the variable sets of columns, because one doesn't know in advance what columns would be available.
If there's a typo in col_types specification, just a warning should be enough. If the user wants to enforce the existence of the columns, it's also easy to do from the user code.

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