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Handling CSV's maybe pretty complicated if you start from scratch and there maybe some libraries out there that solves the problem. But I don't think most of them has the feature of storing data in more than one way.

And just-in-case if any-one here doesn't know what a CSV is then let me explain in brief. It's essentially a text-file with records seperated by comma. There can be all sorts of CSV's but the format that tinyCSV supports is
key=value (= is a delimiter which you can change to ':','-',etc but the overall format should be the same)

An example of a CSV file (that could be used with tinyCSV) is:-
robin=20,batman=120,joker=500,wonderwoman=0,superman=1000

And note that whitespaces don't matter for tinyCSV so you can have as many whitespaces (new lines,tabs,spaces,etc) between any two records.

Note the library at github, you can fork it and make your own changes
https://github.com/YoungNeer/lovelib/tr ... er/tinyCSV
(I'll most likely accept your contribution and if I do I will add your name to the header)

So basically tinyCSV works like this:
You make a file object which would be used to read and write files And then you decide the way data should be stored
There are TWO WAYS of storing data-
1. [key]=value format (advice: use when key is unique such as in {WWIDTH=1280,WHEIGHT=720}
2. {key,value} format (advice: use when key may not be unique such as in {robin=100,jack=20,robin=20})

Don't worry if you don't understand it straight ahead - there are examples with the FULL DOCUMENTATION at the github link)

Once you have decided the way data should be stored you can move to reading a file
The most basic way to read a file is Generally speaking parse actually accepts 3 parameters:- There are few other read functions both they are essentially same as parse just with different default argument so they are not discussed here.

Now to write a file is pretty simple. You pass in the filename,table, delimiter ('=' by default) and format (1 by default) Note that would truncate the file so if you want to append file then use append function- (which has same arglist as write)
NOTE WHEN USING append YOU MUST REQUIRE iTable BEFORE REQUIRING tinyCSV
(https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=86906)

There are other functions as well but most of them are too trivial to be listed here (that is not to say they are not useful - infact the one's I left behind are I guess more useful cause i assume you will mostly read or write at the default love's save location)

It should be called CSP( comma separated pair ) instead of CSV I suggest, and I wonder if any application like Microsoft Excel, MacOS Number.. support this CSP format output.

It's quite a handy module which deal the sort of innovative format that provide another option rather than CSV and Json. I found it's quite convenient for handling simple structure data like config files and leaderboard. thanks for the nice work!

Hello, this is a good attempt but the library needs work in terms of the required dependencies and the code.
I recommend modifying the csvfile:parse function to accept strings. Right now this function works using io.open while other parts of the code use love.filesystem. You need to remove the love.filesystem dependency and this project will become a "general purpose" library.
Some of the code could be simplified, for example: Could become: Please note that this code would break if "sep" contains any of the Lua pattern-matching special characters.

Also, you do not need the following lines: Lastly, I don't think table.join or table.merge is a part of the standard Lua table. module
This library is supposed to parse a few strings, so it is silly to require Love2D and some mysterious module (iTable) in order to get it working.

It's a good exercise to develop your own CSV handling library, but there are plenty of *tested* CSV libraries on Github for Lua.