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Version History:

 1.0 2002-03-27 initial release

 1.1 2002-03-28 close
                configurable separator char
                no longer sensitive to line-ending convention.
                uses a categorise routine to message categories for use in case clauses.
                faster skipToNextLine

 1.2 2002-04-17 put in to separate package

 1.3 2002-04-17

 1.4 2002-04-19 fix bug if last field on line is empty, was not counting as a field.

 1.5 2002-04-19

 1.6 2002-05-25 allow choice of " or ' quote char.

 1.7 2002-08-29 getAllFieldsInLine

 1.8 2002-11-12 allow Microsoft Excel format fields that can span several lines. sponsored by Steve Hunter of
                agilense.com

 1.9 2002-11-14 trim parameter to control whether fields are trimmed of lead/trail whitespace (blanks, Cr, Lf,
                Tab etc.)

 2.0 2003-08-10 getInt, getLong, getFloat, getDouble

 2.1 2005-07-16 reorganisation, new bat files.

 2.2 2005-08-28 add CSVAlign and CSVPack to the suite.

 2.3 2005-08-28 add CSVAlign and CSVPack to the suite.
                Use java com.mindprod.CSVAlign somefile.csv

 2.4 2007-05-20 add icon and PAD

 2.5 2007-11-27 tidy comments

 2.6 2008-02-20 IntelliJ inspector, spell corrections, tightening code.

 2.7 2008-05-28 add CSVTab2Comma.

 2.8 2008-06-04 add CSVWriter put for various primitives.

 2.9 2009-03-27 refactor using enums, support comments.
                major rewrite. Now supports #-style
                comments. More efficient RAM use. You can configure the
                separator character, quote character and comment character.
                You can read seeing or hiding the comments. The API was
                changed to support comments.

 3.0 2009-06-15 lookup table to speed CSVReader

 3.1 2009-12-03 add CSVSort

 3.2 2010-02-23 add hex sort 9x+ option to CSVSort

 3.3 2010-11-14 change default to no comments in input file for CSVTab2Comma.

 3.4 2010-12-03 add CSV2SRS

 3.5 2010-12-11 add CSVReshape

 3.6 2010-12-14 add Lines2CSV

 3.7 2010-12-17 add CSVDeDup

 3.8 2010-12-31 add CSVPatch

 3.9 2011-01-22 add CSVTuple

 4.0 2011-01-23 add CSVToTable and TableToCSV

 4.1 2011-01-24 add CSVEntify and CSVStripEntities

 4.2 2011-01-25 modify all utilities so you can specify the encoding, default to UTF-8.

 4.3 2011-02-08 add support for sorting by field length. Add CSVCondense.

 4.4 2011-02-09 add getYYYYMMDD to CSVReader, improve error exceptions in CSVReader.

 4.5 2011-02-14 CSVToTable no longer entifies. Do separately with Entify, if needed. Add CSVTemplate.

 4.6 2011-02-16 rename from StripEntities to DeEntify. Add summary counts at the end of each utility.

 4.7 2011-02-17 add CSVChangeCase, CSVReshape now reorders the lead ## label comment.

 4.8 2011-02-17 CSVPack, CSVCondense, CSVTuple now tidy up ## label comments.
                CSVReader has new method wasLabelComment to detect ## field labelling comments.

 4.9 2011-02-19 CSVAlign aligns ## comment.

 5.0 2011-02-21 add CSVWriter.setLineSeparator

 5.1 2011-02-24 fix bug, emitted """" for single field with quotelevel 2. reported by Dr. Jens Uwe Meyborn

 5.2 2011-02-25 new csvReader constructor parm trimUnquoted. Use Intellij to fill it in with true every place full
                constructor used.

 5.3 2011-02-25 fix but when column comment had extra cols. left align date headers.

 5.4 2011-03-04 CSVToSRS: apply prelude and postlude to create a complete script that needs tweaking.

 5.5 2011-03-07 CSVTemplate: output file how has same extension as the template.

 5.6 2011-03-08 eliminate all but first duplicate in patch file. allow comments in patch file,
                allow 2+ cols in patch file.

 5.7 2011-03-10 allow numeric sorts on empty columns.

 5.8 2011-03-11 CSVChangeCase fix bug in selecting the correct translation letter.

 5.9 2011-05-11 fix bug in multi-field reads in CSVReader

 6.0 2011-10-27 make CSV display stats. It used to be a dummy.

 6.1 2011-10-29 track comment lines and lines with tail comments separately.

 6.2 2011-10-30 fix fieldCount bug, which corrected bug with hideComments not working.

 6.3 2011-11-10 add CSVSortField and CSVDeDupField

 6.4 2012-01-25 redefine meaning of n option and add d option to CSVSort

 6.5 2012-02-19 DeDupStrategy -keepfirst -keeplast and -delete. f for family name sort option.

 6.6 2012-07-31 fix sort on surname van Pelt, Mc Mac

 6.7 2012-11-12 add CSVCommaToTab

 6.8 2013-01-30 CSVToTable now specify class to <tr as well

 6.9 2013-02-19 Change all encoding parms from string the Charset.

 7.0 2014-04-29 Three new utilities CSVReplaceStrings, CSVReplaceURLs and CSVtoUnique.

 7.1 2014-06-01 add CSVScale, encapsulate much of the IO with the EIO class.

 7.2 2014-08-05 add CSVToSRX for generating Funduc BE search/replace scripts.

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