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As you are stating yourself already, this is no standard CSV, and no auto-detection would work. The new header method is intended for the majority of CSV data file that contain a sane header.

As this will be a new auxiliary / helper method that is not integrated in the normal flow, it is completely optional. Lets say it is just as optional as fragment or callbacks are, which are also there just to ease attacking specific problems in CSV parsing.

Your example is clear, and from real-life data. Not just some data invented to point at the weaknesses new functionality, but with this data, it is obvious that this new method is not something that would help you at all. This new method is not created to help you here.

In your case [fragment could help a lot: read the first line, detect the headers and the header count and then set fragment to only read the data part just before continuing reading the rest of the data.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

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