Comments in csv files

[emmanuel-ruffio]

Hello,

would it be possible for the csv file reader to accept comment lines starting with '#' ?
When working with files exported by other programs, there are often comments at the file header and/or footer (which is convenient). Currently, I have to remove all comment line manually before Binjr accepts to load the data.

Best regards,

[fthevenet]

Hi,

Yes, the underlying parser does support CSV comments, so it makes sense to expose that feature in binjr's CSV adapter as well.

Please note that since version 3.20.0, there is an option to tell the parser to ignore malformed csv lines instead of aborting import, which might help in the meantime:

This should be enough to ignore comments that are not valid CSV lines, e.g.

#this is a comment
2025/09/10T12:34:53.002;2;4;6
2025/09/11T12:34:53.002;1;2;5
2025/09/12T12:34:53.002;10;20;30
#So is this

Nevertheless, it won't help ignore lines that can otherwise been parsed, so I consider supporting comment markers to be a valid feature request:

2025/09/10T12:34:53.002;2;4;6
#2025/09/11T12:34:53.002;1;2;5
2025/09/12T12:34:53.002;10;20;30

I have created an issue to track progress on this, please post comments you might have there: #169

Cheers.