Comment by iamevn

I don't follow why parser combinators would be a bad tool for CSV. It seems like one would specify a CSV parser as (pardon the pseudocode):

  separator = ','
  quote = '"'
  quoted_quote = '""'
  newline = '\n'
  plain_field = sequence(char_except(either(separator, quote, newline)))
  quoted_field = quote + sequence(either(char_except(quote), quoted_quote)) + quote 
  field = either(quoted_field, plain_field)
  row = sequence_with_separator(field, separator)
  csv = sequence_with_separator(row, newline)

Seems fairly natural to me, although I'll readily admit I haven't had to write a CSV parser before so I'm surely glossing over some detail.