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I've done a search replace for commas in Excel to change them to something
else, an asterisk, whatever.

Use CPYFRMIMPF, then do the same on your imported file. Quick and dirty.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 1:03 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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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