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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.

pub fn import_csv(csv: &str) -> Vec<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

fune!(todo.import-csv@^1);  // then call import_csv(…)
impl/rust.rs · 195 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.

use std::collections::HashSet;

use super::funejson::Value;  ← the fune runtime: the JSON value the test vectors use; fune build keeps it only where a signature takes one
use super::todo_item::{todos_to_value, validate_todo, Recurrence, Todo};  ← from todo.item ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune
use super::todo_normalise_tags::normalise_tags;  ← from todo.normalise-tags ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune

const COLUMNS: [&str; 13] = [
    "id", "title", "notes", "done", "priority", "due", "tags",
    "recurrenceFrequency", "recurrenceInterval", "recurrenceAnchor", "createdAt", "completedAt", "order",
];

fn header_rule() -> String {
    format!("the header must have the columns {}", COLUMNS.join(", "))
}

fn fail(row: usize, message: &str) -> ! {
    panic!("row {}: {}", row, message)
}

/// One RFC 4180 record from `pos`: its fields and where the next record
/// starts. Only ASCII bytes are looked at, so every slice is valid UTF-8.
fn read_record(text: &str, mut pos: usize, row: usize) -> (Vec<String>, usize) {
    let b = text.as_bytes();
    let size = b.len();
    let mut fields: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
    loop {
        let value: String;
        if pos < size && b[pos] == b'"' {
            pos += 1;
            let mut out = String::new();
            loop {
                let quote = match text[pos..].find('"') {
                    Some(q) => pos + q,
                    None => fail(row, "a quoted field is not closed"),
                };
                out.push_str(&text[pos..quote]);
                if quote + 1 < size && b[quote + 1] == b'"' {
                    out.push('"');
                    pos = quote + 2;
                } else {
                    pos = quote + 1;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if pos < size && !matches!(b[pos], b',' | b'\r' | b'\n') {
                fail(row, "text after the closing quote of a field");
            }
            value = out;
        } else {
            let mut end = pos;
            while end < size && !matches!(b[end], b',' | b'\r' | b'\n') {
                if b[end] == b'"' {
                    fail(row, "a field with a double quote in it must be quoted");
                }
                end += 1;
            }
            value = text[pos..end].to_string();
            pos = end;
        }
        fields.push(value);
        if pos >= size {
            return (fields, pos);
        }
        if b[pos] == b',' {
            pos += 1;
        } else if b[pos] == b'\n' {
            return (fields, pos + 1);
        } else if pos + 1 < size && b[pos + 1] == b'\n' {
            return (fields, pos + 2);
        } else {
            fail(row, "a CR outside quotes must be followed by LF");
        }
    }
}

/// Where each of COLUMNS sits in the file's header.
fn read_header(names: &[String]) -> Vec<usize> {
    let mut at: Vec<(&str, usize)> = Vec::new();
    for (i, name) in names.iter().enumerate() {
        if !COLUMNS.contains(&name.as_str()) {
            panic!("{}: unknown column \"{}\"", header_rule(), name);
        }
        if at.iter().any(|(n, _)| n == name) {
            panic!("{}: column \"{}\" appears twice", header_rule(), name);
        }
        at.push((name.as_str(), i));
    }
    COLUMNS
        .iter()
        .map(|column| match at.iter().find(|(n, _)| n == column) {
            Some((_, i)) => *i,
            None => panic!("{}: missing column \"{}\"", header_rule(), column),
        })
        .collect()
}

fn whole(row: usize, column: &str, text: &str) -> i64 {
    let digits = text.strip_prefix('-').unwrap_or(text);
    if digits.is_empty() || digits.len() > 15 || !digits.bytes().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit()) {
        fail(row, &format!("{} must be a whole number, found \"{}\"", column, text));
    }
    text.parse::<i64>().unwrap()
}

fn opt(text: &str) -> Option<String> {
    if text.is_empty() { None } else { Some(text.to_string()) }
}

fn read_todo(fields: &[String], at: &[usize], row: usize) -> Todo {
    if fields.len() != COLUMNS.len() {
        fail(row, &format!("expected {} fields, found {}", COLUMNS.len(), fields.len()));
    }
    let get = |i: usize| fields[at[i]].as_str();
    let done = get(3);
    if done != "true" && done != "false" {
        fail(row, &format!("done must be true or false, found \"{}\"", done));
    }
    let (frequency, interval, anchor) = (get(7), get(8), get(9));
    let filled = [frequency, interval, anchor].iter().filter(|t| !t.is_empty()).count();
    let recurrence = match filled {
        0 => None,
        3 => Some(Recurrence {
            frequency: frequency.to_string(),
            interval: whole(row, "recurrenceInterval", interval),
            anchor: anchor.to_string(),
        }),
        _ => fail(row, "fill in all three recurrence columns or leave them all empty"),
    };
    let tags: Vec<String> = get(6).split(' ').map(|t| t.to_string()).collect();
    Todo {
        id: get(0).to_string(),
        title: get(1).to_string(),
        notes: opt(get(2)),
        done: done == "true",
        priority: get(4).to_string(),
        due: opt(get(5)),
        tags: normalise_tags(&tags),
        recurrence,
        created_at: get(10).to_string(),
        completed_at: opt(get(11)),
        order: whole(row, "order", get(12)),
    }
}

/// Todos from CSV: the 13 columns in any order, CRLF or LF, an optional
/// byte order mark. Every row is checked with validate_todo.
///
/// # Panics
/// With "row N: ..." (the header is row 1) on the first malformed or invalid
/// row, or on a header without exactly the 13 columns.
pub fn import_csv(csv: &str) -> Vec<Todo> {
    let text = csv.strip_prefix('\u{feff}').unwrap_or(csv);
    let b = text.as_bytes();
    let mut todos: Vec<Todo> = Vec::new();
    let mut ids: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
    let mut at: Option<Vec<usize>> = None;
    let mut row = 0;
    let mut pos = 0;
    while pos < b.len() {
        if b[pos] == b'\n' {
            pos += 1;
            continue;
        }
        if b[pos] == b'\r' && pos + 1 < b.len() && b[pos + 1] == b'\n' {
            pos += 2;
            continue;
        }
        row += 1;
        let (fields, next) = read_record(text, pos, row);
        pos = next;
        let columns = match &at {
            None => {
                at = Some(read_header(&fields));
                continue;
            }
            Some(columns) => columns,
        };
        let todo = read_todo(&fields, columns, row);
        if let Some((field, message)) = validate_todo(&todo).errors.first() {
            fail(row, &format!("{}: {}", field, message));
        }
        if !ids.insert(todo.id.clone()) {
            fail(row, &format!("duplicate id \"{}\"", todo.id));
        }
        todos.push(todo);
    }
    if at.is_none() {
        panic!("the CSV has no header row");
    }
    todos
}

pub fn fune_vector(args: &[Value]) -> Value {
    todos_to_value(&import_csv(args[0].as_str()))
}

Install

fune build

With that line in your source, in a Rust project (language rust in fune.project), fune build resolves it and its 2 dependencies, pins them in fune.lock, downloads only the Rust 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. A crate’s build.rs runs it before every compile. Or pin a range in fune.project and build in one step:

fune add todo.import-csv
Download for Rust todo.import-csv-1.0.0-rust.fune · 32,294 bytes sha256 5b3af7f1cd2f72cd6f21dfd13718a97cc74cab59457cb19b8b160d301985d84c

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

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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