On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:49:50 -0500, "Qiang (James) Li via RT"
<bug-Text-CSV_XS@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
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> Queue: Text-CSV_XS
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31491 >
>
> thanks for the prompt reply. see my reply below..
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 12:08 PM, h.m.brand@xs4all.nl via RT
> <bug-Text-CSV_XS@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
> >
> > <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31491 >
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:45:12 -0500, "Qiang Li via RT"
> > <bug-Text-CSV_XS@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Thu Dec 13 11:45:11 2007: Request 31491 was acted upon.
> > > Transaction: Ticket created by QIANGLI
> > > Queue: Text-CSV_XS
> > > Subject: broken with field that started with quoted char that followed by
> > > some other chars
> > > Broken in: 0.32
> > > Severity: Normal
> > > Owner: Nobody
> > > Requestors: QIANGLI@cpan.org
> > > Status: new
> > > Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31491 >
> > >
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > it seems that Text::CSV_XS is broken when handling field that started
> > > with quoted char that followed by some other chars. for example:
> > >
> > > (tilda delimited lines)
> > >
> > > "a"a~bla # doesn't parse
> > > "a" a~bla # doesn't parse
> > > a"a"a~bla # parsed
> > > a "a" a~bla # parsed
> > >
> > > i have the following set
> > >
> > and where exactly did you alter the default quote character?
> >
> > > sep_char => '~',
> > > allow_whitespace => 1,
> > > always_quote => 1,
> > > escape_char => '"',
> > > allow_loose_quotes => 1,
> > > binary => 1,
> >
> > quote_char => undef,
> > quote_char => "'",
> > quote_char => "\0",
> >
>
> the purpose of my script is to convert a file to a excel friendly
> format file.
Look in examples to see my stab at that: csv2xls
That creates the excel file for you at once.
Show quoted text> since there may have comma inside the field, i need to
> double quote the field. as to your question:
>
> do i need to specify the quote_char?
only if you want it to be something different than the default double-quote,
which happens to be the CSV standard quoting character.
Show quoted text> the doc says
>
> The char used for quoting fields containing blanks, by default the
> double quote character (").
>
> so the quote char is double quote if i don't specify it.. no ?
Yes
Show quoted text> also is the doc saying "fields containing ONLY blanks"? it isn't very
> clear to me,
That is still open to international discussion. In Text::CSV_XS there
is currently no way to see the difference between
1,,2
and
1,"",2
For your question, the line
1, ,2
is illegal, as fields that contain any special character should be
quoted, so
1," ",2
Show quoted text> and i don't understand why you are using escape_char => "\\" ? i am
> using escape_char => '"' and hoping to escape the double quote inside
> a field.
It is not a wise idea to leave the escape character to " and undef the
quote character, because it will lead to confusion. If you leave it,
1,123"2,3
will cause an error, because the 2 after the " will be seen as an escaped
character, and as it is not special, it should not be escaped
Show quoted text> and your example script doesn't handle 1,"s,3"s,"a"b correctly. as i
> expect "s,3"s is one field but your script split on the inside comma.
>
> i will find some time to play with Text::CSV_XS. thanks for the help.
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