NYTimes/Fech — Issue #15: Allow FECh to preprocess CSV files before parsing
Author: bycoffe
Created: 2012-01-24 15:36:43+00:00
State: open

If a line in a filing contains an illegal quote character, FECh fails.

For example, filing 756218, row 47606, has the following string in the last_name field:

O""Leary

Because double quotes are, by default, the quote character used by FasterCSV and CSV, the parser fails when it gets to this line.

One way around this would be to preprocess the raw CSV file before parsing to remove/replace such characters.