C#

Read Japanese utf-8 CSV File

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Demonstrates how to read a utf-8 .csv file containing some Japanese characters. C#

bool success = false;

//  This example program loads a file (japanese.csv)
//  that contains this content:
//  
//  year,color,country,food
//  2001,red,France,cheese
//  2005,blue,"United States",hamburger
//  2008,green,Italy,pasta
//  1998,orange,Japan,sushi
//  2010,silver,"太志","森田"
//  

Chilkat.Csv csv = new Chilkat.Csv();

//  Prior to loading the CSV file, indicate that the 1st row
//  should be treated as column names:
csv.HasColumnNames = true;

//  Load the CSV records from the file.
//  Important: Make sure to call LoadFile2 so that the charset (utf-8)
//  of the CSV file can be indicated.
success = csv.LoadFile2("qa_data/csv/japanese.csv","utf-8");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(csv.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Display the contents of the 3rd column
int row;
int n = csv.NumRows;
for (row = 0; row <= n - 1; row++) {
    Debug.WriteLine(csv.GetCell(row,2));
}