CTAN package update: csvtools
Date: July 3, 2007 11:30:34 PM CEST
quoth the ctan-upload daemon at tex.ac.uk:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20070703-094346/
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
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> Name of contribution: csvtools
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/csvtools
> Summary description: Reading data from CSV files
> License type: lppl
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Version 1.24:
> Added csvsort.sty (requires xfor package and \'Eamonn McManus'
> compare.tex)
> Provides analogous commands to those in csvtools, but first sorts the
> data using an insertion sort algorithm.
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Thanks, Nicola, for the upload. I've installed it and updated the
catalogue data.
Users may look at the package's catalogue data at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/csvtools.html,
or they can browse the package distribution at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csvtools
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
csvtools – Reading data from CSV files
The csvtools package allows you to repeatedly perform a set of LaTeX commands on data in each row of a comma separated variable (CSV) file (though substitution of the ‘comma’ is permitted). Such files may be used as source for mail merging, generating tables etc. Examples are given in the documentation.
The distribution also provides packages:
- csvsort, that provides analagous commands to those in the main package, having first sorted the data (using the xfor and compare packages); and
- csvpie, for creating a pie-chart from a CSV file.
The bundle has now been superseded by the datatool bundle.
| Package | csvtools |
| Version | 1.24 |
| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot |