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"# Type and types parameters of the Julia CSV parser\n",
"Written in [Julia](https://julialang.org/). See [CSV.jl](https://csv.juliadata.org/stable/) and [DataFrames.jl](https://dataframes.juliadata.org/stable/) for more details"
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"using CSV, DataFrames"
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"All examples are based on string input, which is passed to Julia's CSV reader through `IOBuffer`"
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"\"c1|c2|c3|c4\\n\\\"1\\\"|2|c|1.5\\n\\\"C|D\\\"|16|x|2.33\\n\""
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"data = \"\"\"c1|c2|c3|c4\n",
"\"1\"|2|c|1.5\n",
"\"C|D\"|16|x|2.33\n",
"\"\"\""
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"You can set the same type for all columns using `type` parameter, e.g. string"
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"# type turns all the columns to the same type\n",
"CSV.read(IOBuffer(data), DataFrame; type=String)"
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"Or specify type for each or just some columns using a Dict. If the data cannot be parsed to the type, it's turned to `missing` type, equivalent of pandas's `Nan`."
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"┌ Warning: thread = 1 warning: error parsing Int64 around row = 2, col = 4: \"1.5\n",
"│ \", error=INVALID: OK | NEWLINE | INVALID_DELIMITER \n",
"└ @ CSV /home/vaclav/.julia/packages/CSV/la2cd/src/file.jl:606\n",
"┌ Warning: thread = 1 warning: error parsing Int64 around row = 3, col = 4: \"2.33\n",
"│ \", error=INVALID: OK | NEWLINE | EOF | INVALID_DELIMITER \n",
"└ @ CSV /home/vaclav/.julia/packages/CSV/la2cd/src/file.jl:606\n"
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"CSV.Row:\n",
" :c1 \"1\"\n",
" :c2 \"2\"\n",
" :c3 \"c\"\n",
" :c4 missing\n",
"CSV.Row:\n",
" :c1 \"C|D\"\n",
" :c2 \"16\"\n",
" :c3 \"x\"\n",
" :c4 missing\n"
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"for r in CSV.File(IOBuffer(data), types=Dict(:c2=>String, :c4=>Int64))\n",
" println(r)\n",
"end"
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"┌ Warning: thread = 1 warning: error parsing Int64 around row = 2, col = 4: \"1.5\n",
"│ \", error=INVALID: OK | NEWLINE | INVALID_DELIMITER \n",
"└ @ CSV /home/vaclav/.julia/packages/CSV/la2cd/src/file.jl:606\n",
"┌ Warning: thread = 1 warning: error parsing Int64 around row = 3, col = 4: \"2.33\n",
"│ \", error=INVALID: OK | NEWLINE | EOF | INVALID_DELIMITER \n",
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"# specify types of the columns\n",
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"You can silence these warnings by `silencewarnings=true`"
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"# specify types of the columns\n",
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"# specify valid type for columns\n",
"CSV.read(IOBuffer(data), DataFrame; types=Dict(:c2=>String, :c4=>Float32))"
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"metadata": {},
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"Or specify types for all columns using a **Vector**"
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"types = Array{DataType,1}([String, Int, String, Float64])\n",
"CSV.read(IOBuffer(data), DataFrame; types=types)"
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"execution_count": 9,
"metadata": {},
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