Reading CSV files

[certik]

Here is how NumPy and Pandas do it:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3518778/how-do-i-read-csv-data-into-a-record-array-in-numpy#3519314

and @jacobwilliams wrote a module for it here: https://github.com/jacobwilliams/fortran-csv-module

[ivan-pi]

It would be interesting to see how does Fortran compare with the supposedly fast Pandas read_csv function: https://wesmckinney.com/blog/a-new-high-performance-memory-efficient-file-parser-engine-for-pandas/

[jacobwilliams]

I make no claim that my lib is the fastest thing in the world. 😄 Probably there is massive room for improvement.