Output csv without quotes

[rjcortese]

Hey all, thanks for the great library / tool.
I'm converting some logs to CSV format with a command like:
lognormalizer -r myRulebase -p -e csv -E "field field2 field3 ..."
Current output looks like:
"field","field2","field3"
Everything is peachy but I'm wanting my output to be without quotes:
field,field2,field3,...
Is there currently a way to do this?
If not would it make sense to add this as an enhancement?
Thanks again!

[davidelang]

currently everything liblognorm outputs is quoted, it would be a useful thing to add for some use cases, but the primary use case is rsyslog, which is just fine having everything as a string. So while I think it's a useful option to have, I think it's going to require someone submitting a patch as a contributer (or sponsoring the feature) rather than waiting for the core developers to add it. David Lang

[rjcortese]

I'm down to give it a shot.
If one were to add an option for it, what kind would you suggest? A new command line argument like maybe --csv-no-quotes, or an addition to a current argument?

[davidelang]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, R James Cortese wrote: I'm down to give it a shot. If one were to add an option for it, what kind would you suggest? A new command line argument like maybe `--csv-no-quotes`, or an addition to a current argument?

is this something that is being added to the liblognorm library? or just to the lognormalize program that uses the library? I can see two options 1. just do it in the csv output routine, have an option to have it not quote a field if there is no comma or quote in the field. 2. have an option in the liblognorm syntax to give an option to say that a number field should end up in the json tree as a number, not as a string. this would be an extra parameter in each data type that results in a number. David Lang (adding Rainer directly in case he can notice this and comment amoung his Wu Flu work)

[rjcortese]

I was thinking of just doing it for the lognormalizer program like what is described in 1. above.