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 listimport_csv(id,title,notes,done,priority,due,tags,recurrenceFrequency,recurrenceInterval,recurrenceAnchor,createdAt,completedAt,order)→ the header without a final line breakimport_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]
| csv | string | the file's text; a UTF-8 byte order mark and LF line endings are accepted |
| returns | Todo[] | 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
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 todosInstall
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
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.
| Case | Arguments | Expected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| Case | Arguments | Expected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Files
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| README.md | 4,216 |
| impl/python.py | 5,135 |
| impl/rust.rs | 6,748 |
| impl/typescript.ts | 5,379 |
| vectors.json | 18,064 |