[AccessD] Delimiter Value

John W. Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 16:17:36 CST 2015


No, I can't.

John W. Colby

On 3/3/2015 3:31 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Can you refer me to that "standard"?
>
> The closest I've ever come to finding one is RFC 4180 which not a standard itself and which
> includes the wording
>
> "While there are various specifications and implementations for the
>     CSV format (for ex. [4], [5], [6] and [7]), there is no formal
>     specification in existence, which allows for a wide variety of
>     interpretations of CSV files."
>
> It then continues until you reach this classic absolute classic:
>
> "5.  Each field may or may not be enclosed in double quotes (however
>         some programs, such as Microsoft Excel, do not use double quotes
>         at all).  If fields are not enclosed with double quotes, then
>         double quotes may not appear inside the fields. "
>
>



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