reading CSV text file

[Viktoras Didziulis]

In cases like this I usually open the csv with my OpenOffice and save it
with record delimiter set to tab and no text delimiter (e.g. ordinary tab
delimited file). Then I go to my Revolution studio :-). Otherwise it is a
real headache to process the "correct" csv files as some "clever" programs
also put quotes around text strings only and don't put quotes around numbers
 etc, etc... 
 
You can also load that real csv into mysql and then get it out as tab
delimited. SQLite might also be of some help - just put it into the db and
get it back with select *. 
 
Viktoras 
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: runrev260805 at m-r-d.de 
Date: 06/23/07 00:36:15 
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com 
Subject: reading CSV text file 
 
Hi, 
 
i have to read a textfile, which is comma separated and contains " as text
identifier. The item delimiter is , 
My problem is, i do not know, how can i read the file and detect each item
of a line, as the items are sepearated by comma and the textfield/items
could contain comma, too. How can i tell Revolution to ignore the comma in
the "tesxtarea of an item" 
 
Heres an example line 
 
"7722"," ","Fuji Cleaning Cartridge fr DLT Streamer, retail","DLT
Reinigungskassette fr bis zu 20 Reinigungen nicht fr DLT 1 und VS!","","",
BAND","183","Diverse Hersteller","42419",31.03,38.79,35.27,34.48,34.48,34.48
32.66,0.000,0.000,"",24 
 
As you can see, some fields/items are included in " ,others (the numeric
values) are not. The field included in " could contain , . 
 
Any idea, how i can solve that. I have to mention that in the
textfields/items there could be also the " as product description e.g. TFT
19" or HDD 2.5" 
 
 
Regards, 
 
Matthias 
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