RE: editing a csv file -- RPG400-L

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Extract between commas to a work field. Find the first ". Find the Last " with a checkr. All in between is your character field. If the first Check fails, then it is probably a number.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Quazy [mailto:quazy@SoftHome.net]
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 12:34 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: editing a csv file

I have a csv file, that has quotes" around character fields, and nothing around numeric fields.

I need to look at all the character fields and make shure that they only have one set of quotes in it, or the program that uses it will blow up.

example.

This one is ok

10008,"DE LA BARRE, CRAIG","3120 OGORMAN","AZTEC","AZ","57105",,,,"DECRAIG"

This one is bad the "A" has quotes but is inside of another field

10049,"GOHL, DONALD","1520 "A" RIVERDALE RD","DE SMET","MN","57105",,,1833770

Any suggestions on what would be the best way to approach this?

Thanks

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