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Include header with data-type

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Inspect the repository's C CSV-reading code and the existing offset handling first, then determine how the data-type header should be represented and verify that buffer offsets remain correct after the header is included.

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Description

Include header line with data-type and update the offsets accordingly.

Dominant language
C
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