Changes to the command-line shell so that it understands quoted fields have
now been checked in.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Udi Karni <uka...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oliver - thanks !
>
> Hmmmmm.... so there is no way to specify (borrowing syntax from other DBs)
> something like - "DELIMITED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY ' " ' ?
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Oliver Peters <oliver....@web.de> wrote:
>
> > Am 16.01.2012 17:10, schrieb Udi Karni:
> >
> >  Simon - thanks - but this used to work on 3.7.7.1 (I believe was the
> last
> >> version I downloaded and unfortunately replaced with the latest...)
> >>
> >
> >
> > afaik this never worked with the original CLI (might be that you have
> used
> > a fork that can do this)
> >
> > I see 3 solutions:
> >
> > if you can influence the delimiter take a reliable delimiter (a string
> > you're not using in your file - maybe a |)  and export without " as
> markers
> > for text columns
> >
> > if cant't influence the look of the source find and don't mind to do it
> > manually you can import into a spreadsheet program and use a reliable
> > delimiter without using "
> >
> > if you like scripting you can create a little program with your favorite
> > language
> >
> > greetings
> > Oliver
> >
> >
> >
> >> How, then, do you import character columns that contain commas (like
> >> addresses) from a .csv which uses commas as a delimiter?
> >>
> >> Thanks !
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Simon Slavin<slav...@bigfraud.org>
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 16 Jan 2012, at 3:34pm, Udi Karni wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  "COL1","COL2"
> >>>> "XXXX","YYYY"
> >>>> "XX,X","YYYY"
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, but the shell tool doesn't understand quotes in csv files.
> >>>
> >>> Simon.
> >>>
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