After opening a big csv file in gvim, how can I know how many columns are within this file?
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After opening a big csv file in gvim, how can I know how many columns are within this file?
A quick dirty hack would be to do something like:
Which would give you the number of commas on a single row. Add one and you have your number of columns (assuming no trailing comma, of course).
I say this is quick and dirty because it doesn’t take into account quoted columns which can contain commas. I’m sure there might be a way to take that into account with a regex but it’s probably not trivial.