You need to find out what these strange characters are; then put them in the "in [xxx]" clause of the code - then it will take them out.
Chris Albert, Innovative Technologies. http://www.it.co.ke/beta -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trevor Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [delphi-en] Re: CSV File export character problem I need the lines to remain as lines. I only want the strange Characters removed from the start of the line to the end; Thanks --- In [email protected], "Chris @ IT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simplest best way always works!! > > Use the procedure below: note that this will remove ALL CR/LF in file > Which might not be exactly what you want; you'll end up will all the data in > one row; if you are talking of CSV's > > Procedure remove_cr_lf(infile,outfile : string); > Var > Inf,outf : tfilestream; > Buf1 : TStringStream; > Buf2 : string; > i : integer; > Begin > Inf:=tfilestream.create(infile,fmopenread); > Outf:=tfilestream.create(outfile,fmcreate); > > Buf1:=TStringStream.Create(''); > Buf1.CopyFrom(Inf,0); > Inf.Free; > > Buf2:=''; > For i:=1 to length(Buf1.Datastring) do > If not (Buf1.Datastring[i] in [#13,#10]) then > Buf2:=Buf2+Buf1.Datastring[i]; > > Buf1.Free; > Buf1:=TStringStream.Create(Buf2); > Outf.CopyFrom(Buf1,0); > Buf1.Free; > Outf.Free; > End; > > > Ive just typed this directly in outlook; might have some bugs! > > > > Chris Albert, > Innovative Technologies. > http://www.it.co.ke/beta > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Trevor > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [delphi-en] CSV File export character problem > > Need help in stripping out unwanted characters in a text file. > > I exported a EXCEl spread sheet to a .csv file. I fI look at the file > in notepad all entries show up on individual lines. But on closer > inspection there are either "CR" or "LF" charcters on some lines. > > Therfore when I open the file into oa TMemo component it seperates any > line that contains one of these characters into two lines. > > I tried reding it into a stringlist and then writing the individual > lines to a TMemo but that produced the same result. > > How can I remove these characters (ie CR & LF) charaters that are in > the middle of some of the lines. > > Thanks > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ > To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h6n9nin/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705115362:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123698518/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
