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+# Lua-CSV - delimited file reading
+
+## 1. What?
+
+Lua-CSV is a Lua module for reading delimited text files (popularly CSV and
+tab-separated files, but you can specify the separator).
+
+Lua-CSV tries to auto-detect whether a file is delimited with commas or tabs,
+copes with non-native newlines, survives newlines and quotes inside quoted
+fields and offers an iterator interface so it can handle large files.
+
+
+## 2. How?
+
+    local csv = require("csv")
+    local f = csv.open("file.csv")
+    for fields in f:lines() do
+      for i, v in ipairs(fields) do print(i, v) end
+    end
+
+`csv.open` takes a second argument `parameters`, a table of parameters
+controlling how the file is read:
+
++ `separator` sets the separator.  It'll probably guess the separator
+  correctly if it's a comma or a tab (unless, say, the first field in a
+  tab-delimited file contains a comma), but if you want something else you'll
+  have to set this.  It could be more than one character, but it's used as
+  part of a set: `"["..sep.."\n\r]"`
+
++ Set `header` to true if the file contains a header and each set of fields
+  will be keyed by the names in the header rather than by integer index.
+
++ `columns` provides a mechanism for column remapping.
+  Suppose you have a csv file as follows:
+
+        Word,Number
+        ONE,10
+
+    And columns is:
+
+    + `{ word = true }` then the only field in the file would be
+        `{ word = "ONE" }`
+    + `{ first = { name = "word"} }` then it would be `{ first = "ONE" }`
+    + `{ word = { transform = string.lower }}` would give `{ word = "one" }`
+    + finally,
+
+            { word = true
+              number = { transform = function(x) return tonumber(x) / 10 end }}
+
+      would give `{ word = "ONE", number = 1 }`
+
+    A column can have more than one name: 
+    `{ first = { names = {"word", "worm"}}}` to help cope with badly specified
+    file formats and spelling mistakes.
+
++ `buffer_size` controls the size of the blocks the file is read in.  The
+  default is 1MB.  It used to be 4096 bytes which is what `pagesize` says on
+  my system, but that seems kind of small.
+
+`csv.openstring` works exactly like `csv.open` except the first argument
+is the contents of the csv file. In this case `buffer_size` is set to
+the length of the string.
+
+## 3. Requirements
+
+Lua 5.1, 5.2 or LuaJIT.
+
+
+## 4. Issues
+
++ Some whitespace-delimited files might use more than one space between
+  fields, for example if the columns are "manually" aligned:
+
+        street           nr  city
+        "Oneway Street"   1  Toontown
+
+    It won't cope with this - you'll get lots of extra empty fields.
+
+## 5. Wishlist
+
++ Tests would be nice.
++ So would better LDoc documentation.
+
+
+## 6. Alternatives
+
++ [Penlight](http://github.com/stevedonovan/penlight) contains delimited
+  file reading.  It reads the whole file in one go.
++ The Lua Wiki contains two pages on CSV
+  [here](http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaCsv) and
+  [here](http://lua-users.org/wiki/CsvUtils).
++ There's an example using [LPeg](http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/)
+  to parse CSV [here](http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/#CSV)