alt Hacker NewsI see. Kap tries to be as generic as possible, so assuming that the table has headers doesn't feel right. If the table dont have headers, and the reader assumes it does, then you'll potentially silently lose the first row of data.
I see. Kap tries to be as generic as possible, so assuming that the table has headers doesn't feel right. If the table dont have headers, and the reader assumes it does, then you'll potentially silently lose the first row of data.
You have to make the decision somewhere in your code, unless you're willing to lean on a heuristic; all of the examples in R and Lil make assumptions about the names of columns in the file on-disk just as they make assumptions about the delimiter and the presence of headers.
If I knew the CSV file didn't have built-in headers, I'd write the Lil script like this: