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  3. December 2013

Re: SQL output to csv

John,

You are correct about the "at all" usage. Under normal circumstances, Excel does not produce CSVs with double-quotes, in the cases where special characters are present it does do that. I think the RFC should reflect that.

However, the default behaviour is not RFC compliant.

Pillai


On 12/04/2013 05:11 PM, John Yeung wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Narayanan Pillai <strqst400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I know this is not the right forum to discuss RFCs, but I interpreted
that comment to mean - don't expect excel produced CSVs to look
like this spec. From experience, excel does not produce CSVs with
double quoted fields
The RFC states that "some programs, such as Microsoft Excel, do not
use double quotes at all". But Excel DOES use double quotes whenever
the data contains commas, double-quotes, or newlines.

John


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