Errata Search
RFC Number:		Errata ID:
Source of RFC		Status:	All/Any Verified+Reported Verified Reported Held for Document Update Rejected
Area Acronym:	All/Any app art gen int ops rai rtg sec tsv wit	Type:	All/Any Editorial Technical
WG Acronym:		Submitter Name:
Other:	All/Any IAB INDEPENDENT IRTF Legacy Editorial	Date Submitted:
Summary Table Full Records

RFC 4180, "Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files", October 2005

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 7111

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

---

Errata ID: 6230
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Marco Diniz Sousa
Date Reported: 2020-07-13

Section 2 says:

The last record in the file may or may not have an ending line break.

file = [header CRLF] record *(CRLF record) [CRLF]

It should say:

The last record in the file must have an ending line break.

file = [header CRLF] record *(CRLF record) CRLF

Notes:

The grammar seems to be ambiguous in the case below:
- Records have just one field;
- The last record may have an empty value.

File:
---
header1CRLF
aCRLF
bCRLF
EOF
---

In the file above, we do not know if we have four records (header1, a, b and an empty value) with the last record not ending with a line break; or if we have three records (header1, a and b) with the last record ending with a line break.

The grammar allows empty fields:
non-escaped = *TEXTDATA

According to RFC 2234:
"Default values are 0 and infinity so that *<element> allows any number, including zero;"

Report New Errata