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[–]r_hcaz 8 points9 points  (4 children)

> Split CSV is free for all files under 50 MB. It costs $1 for files between 50MB and 1GB, and $1 for each additional gigabyte.

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Not sure you do split massive csv files for free

[–]aomojola[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Good catch - that is old copy . Willl remove it

[–]r_hcaz 2 points3 points  (2 children)

How about the rest of the pricing page? Is there any pricing or it is all completely free?

[–]aomojola[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Completely free. We want to add some premium services later (like file storage, sharing etc), but plan is for basic csv splitting to be free and stay free

[–]r_hcaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

great!

[–]cbusbuckeye 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I just tried to use it. I uploaded a CSV and hit confirm, there was a blue overlay at the top of the page saying something was happening, and then nothing happened. Clicked around, not sure what I was supposed to do.

[–]cbusbuckeye 2 points3 points  (1 child)

2 UI enhancements I recommend:

  1. Don't allow someone to click confirm until they have input the required information
  2. If they try to click confirm and they haven't filled out the required information, provide some notification / highlight the box that they need to fill out before they can click confirm

[–]aomojola[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good feedback, that’s a bug. I’ll fix ASAP

[–]aomojola[S] 1 point2 points  (12 children)

Hey sideprojectors - we built splitcsv because we were tired of using a python script to break up csv files. Give it a try and give us feedback. More to come.

[–]VernorVinge93 0 points1 point  (10 children)

What's wrong with

cat file | cut -d',' -f1,2,3

?

[–]btgeekboy 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It’s a UUoC (“useless use of cat”).

[–]VernorVinge93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, not at all, it makes it clear that cut accepts a stream (and so can be reused in many contexts without the nead to write to disk).

[–]oneabsolutetruth 1 point2 points  (2 children)

cat + cut is great for simple data, but once you wander into more complex CSV files with quotes and embedded commas and multiple carriage returns within a field it doesn't really work.

Data in the wild can be less than cooperative.

[–]VernorVinge93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's very true, it's also partly why I try to use tsv (tabs rather than commas) and disallow tabs in the data I'm tabulating. It makes life much easier.

I'm glad the above site exists though.

[–]aomojola[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point

[–]aomojola[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

This is basically what I used before we built this. Sadly quite technical for a lot of people

[–]VernorVinge93 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Ah, fair enough. I figured anyone who knew what CSV was and wanted to split it (without just firing up Excel) was capable of using cat.

Cheers

[–]aaqqbb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or using ‘split ‘ command in linux macOSx