On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:56 +0100, Jochen Schultz wrote: > > Microsoft managed to basterdise this format > > a bit as well, and lets you use tabs, spaces and all sorts of other > > characters to delimit data fields. Someone obviously didn't mention to > > them that the file type is 'comma separated values'! > > Or maybe it is because someone told them, that there is data out there, > that might contain commas? > > regards > Jochen
The csv format allows for quote marks which can serve to escape commas: "data, with commas" And for escaping quote marks, you just use triple quote marks: "some text """with quotes""" " Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
