populating table with csv data

[Alex Tweedly]

Marielle Lange wrote:

> Dear Viktoras
>
> You can directly put a data file separated by tabs in a table field  
> (put tData into field "somefield"). 

And so, it at all possible, try to arrange to get your data in Tab 
Separated form - it will save you endless heartache :-)

> If your data are separated with  another separator, then  you need a 
> function to replace that  separator with a tab. This could be 
> something like that (untested)

<snipped some code that, sadly, doesn't work>

The problem is that an 'item' in rev does not pay attention to quotes 
(in Rev, quotes surround words, not items). so if you have input  like

"Doe, John", "27"

there are two fields in the desired interpretation - but there are three 
items
"Doe
John"
"27"
and so the snipped code will unfortunately replace the commas within fields.

If you really, really, can't get the data in TSV, and you have to deal 
with CSV, then you can find a number of pre-written scripts to handle this

Richard Gaskin posted a nice, clean version in 
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2002-June/001767.html

I have a slightly more efficient, but much less legible, understandable 
or maintainable one, in
http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-July/038738.html

(if you need to handle the weird case where quotes within fields are 
handled by doubling the quote, you should see Richard's refinement in 
the following message in that thread).


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