# Why is there no Regex Delim option in CSV.jl?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 16, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-there-no-regex-delim-option-in-csv-jl/129062 "2025-05-16T11:43:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-there-no-regex-delim-option-in-csv-jl/129062/2 "2025-05-16T12:48:36Z")

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Related:

> <https://github.com/JuliaData/CSV.jl/issues/1031>
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> As suggested \[here\](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-a-table-from-rege…x/63201/1)

> [@Creating a Table from Regex](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-a-table-from-regex/63201/1):
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> It occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to create a table from a string by providing a regex that uses named groups. nushell’s parse function ([docs](https://www.nushell.sh/book/commands/parse.html), [example](https://www.nushell.sh/cookbook/parsing.html)) does this. A RegexMatch has all the right things for a Tables.jl row, except it doesn’t provide getproperty overloads as historically it’s fields were part of it’s public API (though that has progressively become less true, it would be too breaking to change that now). But we can wrap a RegexMatch in a suitable type. (Might a…

So I guess the answer is “because no one has implemented it”.

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