As a learning exercise to get to know zig I build a small command line tool that works like the cut utility but uses the header to identify columns additionaly to indices and has some extra functionality build in.
Feedback from more experienced zig developers is very welcome. If you find any bug or you see some non-idiomatic costructs please let me know.
see src/USAGE.txt
csvcut is licensed under the MIT license
see LICENSE.txt
To build csvcut you just need the zig compiler, which can be downloaded from https://ziglang.org/download/
Currently zig master (0.14.0) is supported, builds might break in never and older versions.
There is no installation needed, just download the package for your operating system an extract the archive and add it to your PATH
execute following commands in a windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe)
curl https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/zig-windows-x86_64-0.14.0.zip --output zig.zip
tar -xf zig.zip
del zig.zip
set PATH=%cd%\zig-windows-aarch64-0.14.0;%PATH%either install zig 0.14.0 with your package manager or execute following commands in a shell
wget https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/zig-linux-x86_64-0.14.0.tar.xz
tar -xf zig-linux-x86_64-0.14.0.tar.xz
rm zig-linux-x86_64-0.14.0.tar.xz
export PATH=$(pwd)/zig-linux-x86_64-0.14.0.tar.xz:$PATHIf you have zig installed and on your PATH just cd into the directory and execute zig build
The first build takes a while and when it's finished you'll find the executeable (csvdiff or csvdiff.exe) in zig-out/bin/
You can run the built-in unit tests with zig build test If everything is ok you will see no output.
Use zig build -Doption=ReleaseFast to build a release version optimized for speed.