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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For character fields I use a service program procedure that handles
the rules for CSV character values. (Hint: To make it easy, I enclose
all character values in quotes (") whether they contain a character
which requires it or not. The CSV standard allows this.)

Well, there's not really any such thing as "the CSV standard". There
are various dialects or variants, the most common one being Excel's.
It's true that most or perhaps even all dialects will accept
surrounding quotes whether needed or not; but if your data will be
opened in Excel (or something which parses CSV the way Excel does),
and you have quotes inside your data, you must be sure to double them.
That is, for every double-quote character (") inside your data, you
need to write two adjacent double-quote characters ("") in your CSV
file.

John

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