holman/spark — Issue #23: Accept multiple delimiters
Author: gwern
Created: 2011-11-15 17:00:05+00:00
State: open

The example uses of spark spend a lot of time munging input into the exact comma-delimited form spark demands. Seems like a waste. And many of the spark clones use different delimiters. Why not just accept all forms of white-space as delimiters? Space, newline, tab - everyone will want *one* of them eventually.

(If you wanted to get really crazy, you could probably do something to accept any delimiter by parsing runs of consecutive numbers: '10xyz5xyz5.0xyz485xyz' etc. But I'm not actually suggesting you do that unless you think it's awesome.)