Re: The " character in CPYFRMIMPF

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

For these very reasons, wherever practical, I prefer to use pipe or
tilde delimited files.  you can then put pretty much anything you want
inside the special characters.

this of course isn't practical in many cases.  In my current
situation, we have no IT relationship with our customers, so I can
dictate much to our other outside partners/vendors.  It hasn't always
the case for me.

Rick


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:33:54 -0400, Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Rob,
> 
> > Perhaps so, but a bugs a bug and I still recommend reporting it to IBM.
> 
> I don't think I can call this a bug.  There are no well-defined
> industry standards for CSV formatting.  That is why MS can get by with
> Excel's abhorent behavior of having any value which looks like a
> number be construed as a number even when it is in quotes.  This
> absolutely wrecks havoc with trying to import USA 5-digit zip codes
> when using CSV extensions.
> 
> I believe both Excel and CPYFRMIMPF will handle consecutive (i.e.
> doubled) quote as in "15"" PIZZA", much like you'd say 'o''clock' in a
> RPG literal.  I'd argue that the CSV contents is faulty, even if Excel
> will accept it.
> 
> Doug
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