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Re: CSV file and the delimiter

At 19:13 04/20/2003, Booth Martin wrote: 
I want to find a simple way to never get tricked with embedded commas,
apostrophes, colons, or other special characters.  Enclosing every field
including numeric fields in paired quotes will do that, and I have done that
in the past with success or at least I thought it was with success.  I would
prefer to use the comma delimiter as it is the most widely used and
understood on the Dark Side.

I've been using tabs. They're not commonly found embedded in data, and they convert cleanly back and forth between ASCII and EBCDIC. Of course if you're working with paragraphs of text, tab wouldn't be a good choice. Another possibility is escaping embedded commas or converting them to something else on one side (maybe like "~~"), and back to commas on the other.


Pete Hall
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