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A tiny PHP helper casts the Excel boolean words to the boolean value.

Very often some of us need to parse CSV contains boolean values. The problems happen then you need to work with non-english sources because of the different naming of true and false in different languages.

Now you don't need to look for all possible translation. This helper solve the problem.

Right now the package supports next languages:

• Basque
• German
• Danish
• Finnish
• French
• Galician
• Italian
• Catalan
• Dutch
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese, Brazil
• Portuguese, Portugal
• Russian
• Swedish
• Spanish
• Czech
• Turkish
• Hungarian

Installation

Install CSV Boolean Cast with Composer

  composer require softwarecuisine/csv-boolean-cast 

Usage/Examples

CSV Sample with boolean values mixed in German and Polish

id,name,company
1,Test GmbH,WAHR
2,Herr Schmidt,FALSE
3,Beispiel UG,WAHR

Code example

use SoftwareCuisine\CSVBooleanCast\CSVBooleanCast;

class CSVReader
{
    public function read(): void
    {
        $csv = "id,name,company
                1,Test GmbH,WAHR
                2,Herr Schmidt,FALSE
                3,Beispiel UG,WAHR";

        $result = [];

        $rows = explode(PHP_EOL, $csv);

        foreach ($rows as $index => $row) {
            if ($index > 0) {
                $columns = str_getcsv(trim($row));
                $result[] = CSVBooleanCast::cast($columns[2]);
            }
        }

        var_dump($result);
    }
}

(new CSVReader)->read();

Output

array(3) {
  [0] =>
  bool(true)
  [1] =>
  bool(false)
  [2] =>
  bool(true)
}

Used By

Please, message me, if you use this package, to be mentioned here.

Authors

• @softwarecuisine

License

MIT License Text

Feedback

If you have any feedback, please reach out to me at nikolay@nikolay.ws

Support

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