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Re: Using CPYFRMIMPF

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:31 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am 03.06.2021 um 14:48 schrieb Howie, Bill <BHowie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The file started out as an XLS file that I saved as a CSV file, and then did the CPYFRMIMPF. Is there a foolproof way to handle the alpha fields that have commas as part of the data?

Can't you instruct Excel to use something different as field separator? I know CSV mostly with semi-colons as separators.

As far as I know, the only delimiter choices provided by Excel are
commas and tabs. Interestingly, even if you choose tab-delimited, it
*still* surrounds comma-containing cells with double-quotes, so that's
really no better (from OP's point of view) than Excel-generated CSV.

John Y.

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