[Gretl-devel] Re: mread possible enhancement

3) Nonetheless, I find that it's not too difficult to handle the issues under point 2 in the context of our current CSV importation code. In current git, you can try out reading CSV into a matrix via mread() when the filename (or URL) has a ".csv" extension. Two comments on that: (a) "CSV" really just means delimited text, the delimiter doesn't have to be comma; and (b) if we want to pursue this option we could admit some other filename extensions.

4) One point supported by Jack's hansl code that is not supported by our built-in CSV importer is malformed CSV (e.g. some lines have more fields than others). I don't think we'd want to support this in our C code -- and actually I kinda wonder about the wisdom of supporting it at all.