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Subject:	Re: CSV delimiters
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
Date:	Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:37:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes: > I hate it too. IIRC, Excel uses "" instead of \" for an escaped " -- but I > could be wrong. I just remember hating it once when I looked at it. :) > One nice thing, though, is that Excel can import tab-delimited text, so that's > it's saving grace. Eeek -- shame on me -- did I just say "it's" when I meant "its"? Anyway, I forgot to say: The idea of escaping quotes is *bizarre* in the first place. IMHO, there shouldn't *be* any closing double-quote character on a field once it has already been declared a string field by an opening double-quote. The only escaping that should happen is on commas, IMHO. But "that's not how it's done." :) --Todd

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		RE: CSV delimiters
(...) I agree. I was trying to hack an Excel file into some usable html, and those "" made it nearly impossible for me to do search and replaces to get valid html without messing it up in other places. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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		Re: CSV delimiters
(...) I hate it too. IIRC, Excel uses "" instead of \" for an escaped " -- but I could be wrong. I just remember hating it once when I looked at it. :) One nice thing, though, is that Excel can import tab-delimited text, so that's it's saving grace. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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