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Re: CSV delimiters
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Date: 
Sat, 23 Sep 2000 07:25:16 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm^NoSpam^.org
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There exists (in CPAN) a Text-CSV perl module. From its documentation:

       This module is based upon a working definition of CSV
       format which may not be the most general.

       1   Allowable characters within a CSV field include 0x09
           (tab) and the inclusive range of 0x20 (space) through
           0x7E (tilde).

       2   A field within CSV may be surrounded by double-quotes.

       3   A field within CSV must be surrounded by double-quotes
           to contain a comma.

       4   A field within CSV must be surrounded by double-quotes
           to contain an embedded double-quote, represented by a
           pair of consecutive double-quotes.

       5   A CSV string may be terminated by 0x0A (line feed) or
           by 0x0D,0x0A (carriage return, line feed).


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(...) Aha! Excellent. Those docs sound well thought out. Hmm, that reminds me... Duh, this is prolly a common Perl thing. I bet Freidl[1] as some stuff on CSV? Lessee... <dig dig dig> Ahh, here we go: pp. 204-208, 227, 231, 290. And (haha!) it even (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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(...) I remember looking for this about a year ago, and I came across something that looked very standardish. If I remember right, it's really silly. You don't actually escape things. Fields are comma separated, and optionally surrounded by (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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