BTW, this occurs usually, when a textbox is used for data entry, someone pastes a URL, then hits the ENTER key And then types some more data. To the original database/excel file it's one cell (.xls file), but when that Source file is exported to the .csv (you know, that warning that some formatting features will be lost?!?)
What would solve the problem would be if the .csv standard also included escaping of cr and lf characters so That the export didn't get broken.... I get those frequently from clients, when they have address fields where the client types the first line, Then hits enter and enters the second line, instead of having two address line fields. -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:22 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File It's certainly possible, although I can't detect it. Do you know how I would see it in the spreadsheet itself? Charlie On 02-09-2012 10:11 AM, George Gallen wrote: > Is it possible that the URL has an embedded lf at the end from entry on the > source side? > > I've created csv files comma/quoted that contained URLs and were quite long > and didn't have any issues importing > Them into excel as a .csv , at least not as breaking into two lines. > > George > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:06 AM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File > > Thanks George. I changed the tabs to pipes just to display them here. > Normally I save as tab delimited with no surrounding character. Since > the cell contents copies and pastes as 2 lines, I'm not sure whether > these suggestions would solve my problem. > > Thanks again, > Charlie > > On 02-09-2012 8:54 AM, George Gallen wrote: >> Not sure if this helps... >> >> I noticed that you were showing pipe delimited lines... >> If you rename your file from .csv to .txt >> >> Then from excel, you use the "Open" option, and then you can set the >> delimiter to | >> And also change the column types before it imports it, or have it skip >> a column as well. >> >> George >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org >> [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah >> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:46 AM >> To: U2 Users List >> Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File >> >> While everyone is thinking about CSV and Excel, maybe I can get a >> solution to a problem that's been plaguing me for a long time. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
