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Subject:	RE: CSV delimiters
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
Date:	Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:44:06 GMT
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Todd Lehman writes: > 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." :) 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 http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/

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		Re: CSV delimiters
(...) I think there are a variety of CSV-to-HTML-table converters floating around that you can download -- I saw at least 3 earlier while searching before posting. You'd probably want to look for one that somehow auto-sensed whether quotes were (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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		Re: CSV delimiters
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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