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Pierre Villard resolved NIFI-6745.
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Resolution: Feedback Received
Apache NiFi 1.x is no longer maintained and no new release is planned on the
1.x release line. Marking as resolved as part of a cleanup operation. Please
open a new one with an updated description if this is still relevant for NiFi
2.x.
> No possiblity to set empty string as escape character
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> Key: NIFI-6745
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-6745
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core Framework
> Affects Versions: 1.9.2
> Reporter: N
> Priority: Trivial
>
> In a traditional csv parser like excel if you want to include a comma in a
> field you encapsulated it with quotes ("foo,bar") and if you need quotes
> between those quotes you add another pair of quotes before it ( "she
> said:""foo""" )
> however, in your csv parser there is another rule which says that '\' is a
> classic escape char and you can't disable it, this is a problematic rule
> because:
> If you have a csv which contains a JSON as a string inside one of his fields
> like (1,test,"\{""foo"":""bar""}") and you want to add a ' " ' inside it you
> need to add a ' \' before it(1,test,"\{""foo"":""b\""r""}") because you need
> to escape the " for the JSON parser, but in your csv parser this example will
> fail becuse it will be parsed to "\{""foo"":""b"r""}")" which is invalid (
> the exemple sould become \{"foo":"b/"r"} ) .
> In order to fix this adding the optoin to disable the escape char in the csv
> parser will fix this problem.
> And by the way why is there an escape char in a csv parser any ways?
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