Re: How to handle extra double quotes in CSVR4? -- RPG400-L

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Hi John,

You are correct that this was not produced by Excel. It's generated by a large national company, so I don't have control over the format.

-mark

On 12/15/2020 11:23 PM, John Yeung wrote:

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:32 PM mlazarus<mlazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Example:
"1","This is a regular title","AAA"
"2",""This is a quoted title"","BBB"

In the second record the double quote pairs seem to throw the
processor off. Has anyone run into this? Any solution?

That is not an Excel-produced CSV. I hesitate to say it's "nonstandard"
because there isn't any official standard for CSV, but it isn't surprising
that it's not processed cleanly by a CSV-handling package.

Because it doesn't adhere to... let's call it the predominant dialect of
CSV, you may need to process it yourself.

I would infer it ALWAYS surrounds char values in quotes, but then doesn't
have any other escape mechanisms. So you can account for that yourself,
building your own little miniparser with maybe %split or %scan or
something.

John Y.

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