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todo.import-csv

Read todos from a CSV file (RFC 4180) as todo.export-csv writes it, checking every row, with row-numbered errors.

1.0.0 (not the latest) · published 2026-10-03 by charlie · Anterra

Pinned by 46 tests, run in TypeScript, Python and Rust.

What it does

Reads todos from CSV text, as todo.export-csv writes it or as a spreadsheet saves it, and checks every row. It returns the todos in file order, each one valid by todo.item's `validateTodo`, or throws on the first problem with the row it is in.

## The file format

For example

  • import_csv(id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order ) → the header alone is an empty list
  • import_csv(id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order) → the header without a final line break
  • import_csv(id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 ) → ×1 one plain row: empty fields become null, false, order 0

The function

The same function in TypeScript, Python and Rust, pinned by the same tests. Pick your language; the choice follows you around the registry.

def import_csv(csv: str) -> List[Todo]
csvstringthe file's text; a UTF-8 byte order mark and LF line endings are accepted
returnsTodo[]the todos in file order, each one valid by todo.item's validateTodo

Your code names it in one line, in the file that uses it

from fune.todo.import_csv import import_csv  # todo.import-csv@^1
impl/python.py · 141 lines · open · raw

Imports name this capability’s declared dependencies, which fune builds next to it in your project; each one links to its page.

import re
from typing import Dict, List, NoReturn, Optional, Set, Tuple

from .todo_item import Recurrence, Todo, validate_todo  ← from todo.item ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune
from .todo_normalise_tags import normalise_tags  ← from todo.normalise-tags ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune

_COLUMNS = (
    "id", "title", "notes", "done", "priority", "due", "tags",
    "recurrenceFrequency", "recurrenceInterval", "recurrenceAnchor", "createdAt", "completedAt", "order",
)
_HEADER_RULE = "the header must have the columns " + ", ".join(_COLUMNS)
_WHOLE = re.compile(r"-?[0-9]{1,15}")


def _fail(row: int, message: str) -> NoReturn:
    raise ValueError(f"row {row}: {message}")


def _read_record(text: str, pos: int, row: int) -> Tuple[List[str], int]:
    """One RFC 4180 record from pos: its fields and where the next record starts."""
    fields: List[str] = []
    size = len(text)
    while True:
        if pos < size and text[pos] == '"':
            pos += 1
            parts: List[str] = []
            while True:
                quote = text.find('"', pos)
                if quote < 0:
                    _fail(row, "a quoted field is not closed")
                parts.append(text[pos:quote])
                if quote + 1 < size and text[quote + 1] == '"':
                    parts.append('"')
                    pos = quote + 2
                else:
                    pos = quote + 1
                    break
            if pos < size and text[pos] not in ",\r\n":
                _fail(row, "text after the closing quote of a field")
            value = "".join(parts)
        else:
            end = pos
            while end < size and text[end] not in ",\r\n":
                if text[end] == '"':
                    _fail(row, "a field with a double quote in it must be quoted")
                end += 1
            value = text[pos:end]
            pos = end
        fields.append(value)
        if pos >= size:
            return fields, pos
        if text[pos] == ",":
            pos += 1
        elif text[pos] == "\n":
            return fields, pos + 1
        elif pos + 1 < size and text[pos + 1] == "\n":
            return fields, pos + 2
        else:
            _fail(row, "a CR outside quotes must be followed by LF")


def _read_header(names: List[str]) -> List[int]:
    at: Dict[str, int] = {}
    for i, name in enumerate(names):
        if name not in _COLUMNS:
            raise ValueError(f'{_HEADER_RULE}: unknown column "{name}"')
        if name in at:
            raise ValueError(f'{_HEADER_RULE}: column "{name}" appears twice')
        at[name] = i
    for name in _COLUMNS:
        if name not in at:
            raise ValueError(f'{_HEADER_RULE}: missing column "{name}"')
    return [at[name] for name in _COLUMNS]


def _whole(row: int, column: str, text: str) -> int:
    if not _WHOLE.fullmatch(text):
        _fail(row, f'{column} must be a whole number, found "{text}"')
    return int(text)


def _read_todo(fields: List[str], at: List[int], row: int) -> Todo:
    if len(fields) != len(_COLUMNS):
        _fail(row, f"expected {len(_COLUMNS)} fields, found {len(fields)}")
    (id_, title, notes, done, priority, due, tags, frequency, interval, anchor, created_at, completed_at,
     order) = [fields[i] for i in at]
    if done not in ("true", "false"):
        _fail(row, f'done must be true or false, found "{done}"')
    filled = sum(1 for text in (frequency, interval, anchor) if text != "")
    recurrence: Optional[Recurrence] = None
    if filled == 3:
        recurrence = Recurrence(frequency=frequency, interval=_whole(row, "recurrenceInterval", interval), anchor=anchor)
    elif filled != 0:
        _fail(row, "fill in all three recurrence columns or leave them all empty")
    return Todo(
        id=id_,
        title=title,
        notes=None if notes == "" else notes,
        done=done == "true",
        priority=priority,
        due=None if due == "" else due,
        tags=normalise_tags(tags.split(" ")),
        recurrence=recurrence,
        created_at=created_at,
        completed_at=None if completed_at == "" else completed_at,
        order=_whole(row, "order", order),
    )


def import_csv(csv: str) -> List[Todo]:
    """Todos from CSV: 13 columns in any order, CRLF or LF, optional BOM; errors name the row (header = row 1)."""
    text = csv[1:] if csv.startswith("") else csv
    todos: List[Todo] = []
    ids: Set[str] = set()
    at: Optional[List[int]] = None
    row = 0
    pos = 0
    size = len(text)
    while pos < size:
        if text[pos] == "\n":
            pos += 1
            continue
        if text.startswith("\r\n", pos):
            pos += 2
            continue
        row += 1
        fields, pos = _read_record(text, pos, row)
        if at is None:
            at = _read_header(fields)
            continue
        todo = _read_todo(fields, at, row)
        errors = validate_todo(todo).errors
        for field, message in errors.items():
            _fail(row, f"{field}: {message}")
        if todo.id in ids:
            _fail(row, f'duplicate id "{todo.id}"')
        ids.add(todo.id)
        todos.append(todo)
    if at is None:
        raise ValueError("the CSV has no header row")
    return todos

Install

fune build

With that line in your source, in a Python project (language python in fune.project), fune build resolves it and its 2 dependencies, pins them in fune.lock, downloads only the Python package of each, and builds the code above into your project’s .fune/build, one readable file per capability with a header linking back here. Or pin a range in fune.project and build in one step:

fune add todo.import-csv
Download for Python todo.import-csv-1.0.0-python.fune · 30,646 bytes sha256 09a074588cfebc8cf23c876027c6973ebe71bce72e1a66587ad77a1643a8a5ad

The manifest, vectors and README with only the Python implementation. Install it without the registry with fune add ./todo.import-csv-1.0.0-python.fune, or fetch it from a terminal with fune pull todo.import-csv@1.0.0:python.

The whole function, every language, is one file too: todo.import-csv-1.0.0.fune, 43,391 bytes, sha256 395dfb021064802d0bdf93d3ed3c090c104159ba61537513055acb08dc2a1eb9. It installs into a project of any language.

Customise it in your app

The seams this capability offers. Put a marker directly above a function of your own and fune build wires it into the built code; the package on the registry is not changed, the built file’s header lists it under CUSTOMISED, and fune hooks lists every hook in the project. How hooks work.

before — your function gets the arguments and returns them, changed or not, or throws to refuse the call.

# fune: before todo.import-csv

after — your function gets the result and the arguments, and returns the final result.

# fune: after todo.import-csv

replace — inside this capability’s code only, calls to a dependency go to your function, with the same signature. Other capabilities that use it are unaffected; write in * to replace it everywhere.

# fune: replace todo.item in todo.import-csv
# fune: replace todo.normalise-tags in todo.import-csv

step — your function runs at a numbered point inside the function’s body, receives the in-scope values it names as parameters, and may return replacements. List the points with fune show todo.import-csv --steps.

# fune: step todo.import-csv after <n|label>

Tests

A version published now needs at least 8 tests for every function, and one that expects the error for each function that throws; the registry refuses it otherwise. fune verify --all runs each case in TypeScript, Python and Rust, and a project runs them again with fune verify. This page lists the cases; it does not run them. The exact JSON is vectors.json.

CaseArgumentsExpected
the header alone is an empty list id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order →
the header without a final line break id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order →
one plain row: empty fields become null, false, order 0 id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → ×1
the last row without a final line break id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → ×1
LF line endings and a UTF-8 byte order mark id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → ×1
columns in another order are matched by name order,completedAt,createdAt,recurrenceAnchor,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceFrequency,tags,due,priority,done,notes,title,id 7,2026-09-28T10:00:00Z,2026-09-20T08:00:00Z,2026-10-01,2… → ×1
round trip: the file todo.export-csv writes for quotes, commas, line breaks, unicode, a repeat and a done todo id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,"Read ""Dune"", then lend it","Chapter 1 Chapter 2 s… → ×2
empty lines between and after rows are skipped id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 … → ×2
tags from another tool are normalised: # dropped, lower-cased, commas and repeats gone id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,"#Home Work, home Home-Office"… → ×1
quoted fields that did not need quoting, and an empty quoted field for notes (null) id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order "t1","Buy milk","","false","none","","","","","","2026-0… → ×1
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CaseArgumentsExpected
a lone CR inside quotes is kept as it is id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,"a b",false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,… → ×1
leading zeros in order and interval are read as the number id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,2026-10-01,,daily,003,2026-10-01… → ×1
spaces around a field are data, not trimmed (notes keep them) id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk, note ,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00… → ×1
the same title twice is fine; only ids must differ id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 t2… → ×2
empty text has no header row → error: the CSV has no header row
only empty lines and a byte order mark have no header row  → error: the CSV has no header row
a header without the order column id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt → error: the header must have the columns id, title, notes, done, priority, due, tags, recurrenceFrequency, recurrenceInterval, recurrenceAnchor, createdAt, completedAt, order: missing column "order"
a header with an extra column id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order,colour → error: the header must have the columns id, title, notes, done, priority, due, tags, recurrenceFrequency, recurrenceInterval, recurrenceAnchor, createdAt, completedAt, order: unknown column "colour"
header names are matched exactly: Title is not title id,Title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order → error: the header must have the columns id, title, notes, done, priority, due, tags, recurrenceFrequency, recurrenceInterval, recurrenceAnchor, createdAt, completedAt, order: unknown column "Title"
a header naming a column twice id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order,title → error: the header must have the columns id, title, notes, done, priority, due, tags, recurrenceFrequency, recurrenceInterval, recurrenceAnchor, createdAt, completedAt, order: column "title" appears twice
a row one field short id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 t1… → error: row 3: expected 13 fields, found 12
a row with a trailing comma has one field too many id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0, → error: row 2: expected 13 fields, found 14
a quoted field that is never closed id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,"Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: a quoted field is not closed
text after a closing quote id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,"Buy" milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: text after the closing quote of a field
a double quote inside a field that is not quoted id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Read "Dune",,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: a field with a double quote in it must be quoted
a lone CR outside quotes (old Mac line endings) id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 1: a CR outside quotes must be followed by LF
done must be true or false, not yes id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,yes,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: done must be true or false, found "yes"
done is case-sensitive: TRUE is refused id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,TRUE,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: done must be true or false, found "TRUE"
an interval that is not a whole number id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,2026-10-01,,daily,1.5,2026-10-01… → error: row 2: recurrenceInterval must be a whole number, found "1.5"
an empty order id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,, → error: row 2: order must be a whole number, found ""
an order with a plus sign id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,+1 → error: row 2: order must be a whole number, found "+1"
an order in Arabic-Indic digits id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,٣ → error: row 2: order must be a whole number, found "٣"
an order with 16 digits is refused id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,12345… → error: row 2: order must be a whole number, found "1234567890123456"
recurrence columns partly filled id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,2026-10-01,,daily,,2026-10-01,20… → error: row 2: fill in all three recurrence columns or leave them all empty
a blank title id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1, ,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: title: Enter a title.
spaces around the title id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1, Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: title: Remove the spaces around the title.
an unknown priority and a bad due date: priority comes first id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,urgent,2026-02-30,,,,,2026-09-28T09:3… → error: row 2: priority: Choose a priority: none, low, medium or high.
a done todo without a completion time id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,true,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: completedAt: A done todo needs the time it was completed.
a negative order is a whole number, so validateTodo reports it id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,-1 → error: row 2: order: Order must be a whole number, 0 or more.
an interval of 0 id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,2026-10-01,,daily,0,2026-10-01,2… → error: row 2: recurrence: Repeat every 1 to 999 days, weeks, months or years.
eleven different tags id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,a b c d e f g h i j k,,,,2026-0… → error: row 2: tags: Use no more than 10 tags.
an empty id id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order ,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 → error: row 2: id: Every todo needs an id.
a timestamp with an offset id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00+01:00,,… → error: row 2: createdAt: Record when it was created as a UTC timestamp, e.g. 2026-09-28T09:30:00Z.
the same id twice id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 t1… → error: row 3: duplicate id "t1"
rows are records, not lines: empty lines and line breaks in quotes are not counted id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,"a b c",false,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:0… → error: row 3: done must be true or false, found "maybe"
the first bad row wins, even when a later row cannot be read id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order t1,Buy milk,,no,none,,,,,,2026-09-28T09:30:00Z,,0 t2,"o… → error: row 2: done must be true or false, found "no"

More from the author

CSV as in [RFC 4180, Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180). The same format is written by todo.export-csv and read by todo.import-csv.

- A header row, then one row per todo. todo.export-csv writes these 13 columns in this order: `id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order` - `done` is `true` or `false`. `tags` are joined with single spaces. The repeat takes three columns, all empty when the todo does not repeat. `order` and `recurrenceInterval` are decimal integers. A null field (`notes`, `due`, `completedAt`) is empty. - A field is quoted with double quotes exactly when it contains a comma, a double quote, CR or LF, and a double quote inside it is doubled. Nothing else is quoted, and spaces are kept as they are. - Every row, the last one included, ends with CRLF.

**Caveat for spreadsheets.** Nothing is escaped against formula injection: a title such as `=1+1` or `=HYPERLINK(...)` is written as it is, because prefixing it with `'` would change the title when the file is read back. If your app offers the file for opening in Excel, LibreOffice or Google Sheets, warn people, or write a separate spreadsheet export that escapes cells starting with `=`, `+`, `-` or `@`.

## What it accepts beyond that

Files come back from spreadsheets and other tools, so reading is a little wider than writing:

- CRLF or LF line endings (CR or LF inside a quoted field is kept as it is), an optional UTF-8 byte order mark at the start, and an optional line break after the last row. Empty lines are skipped. - The 13 columns in any order, each exactly once and nothing else. Names are matched exactly (`Title` is not `title`). - Any field may be quoted, needed or not. - Tags are split on spaces and normalised with todo.normalise-tags, so `#Home Work,` imports as `home work`. - `order` and `recurrenceInterval` accept leading zeros and a leading `-` (so a negative order is reported by `validateTodo`'s own message).

Empty `notes`, `due` and `completedAt` fields become null.

## Errors

Rows are records, counted from 1 for the header, so the first todo is row 2. A quoted field with line breaks is one row, and skipped empty lines are not counted. Rows are read in order and the first problem is thrown:

- `the CSV has no header row` (empty text, or only empty lines) - `the header must have the columns id, title, notes, done, priority, due, tags, recurrenceFrequency, recurrenceInterval, recurrenceAnchor, createdAt, completedAt, order: ` then `unknown column "colour"`, `column "title" appears twice` or `missing column "order"` - `row N: a quoted field is not closed` - `row N: text after the closing quote of a field` - `row N: a field with a double quote in it must be quoted` - `row N: a CR outside quotes must be followed by LF` (old Mac line endings) - `row N: expected 13 fields, found 12` - `row N: done must be true or false, found "yes"` (case-sensitive) - `row N: fill in all three recurrence columns or leave them all empty` - `row N: recurrenceInterval must be a whole number, found "1.5"` and the same for `order`: ASCII digits, an optional leading `-`, at most 15 digits (no `+`, spaces, decimals or exponents) - `row N: <field>: <message>`, the first of `validateTodo`'s messages in field order, e.g. `row 2: title: Remove the spaces around the title.` - `row N: duplicate id "t1"`

## Why it is shaped this way

All or nothing: a half-imported list is harder to fix than a file, so one bad row refuses the whole file and says where to look. The row number counts records rather than lines because that is what a spreadsheet shows, and a quoted note with line breaks is one spreadsheet row.

Unknown columns are refused rather than ignored, so a misspelt header (`compltedAt`) is caught instead of silently dropping data.

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