that is what i would expect: escaping only works if quoted
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Jain, Nishit <nja...@underarmour.com>
wrote:
> Interesting finding: Escaping works if data is quoted but not otherwise.
>
> From: "Jain, Nishit" <nja...@underarmour.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 10:54 AM
> To: "user@spark.apache.org" <user@spark.apache.org>
> Subject: CSV escaping not working
>
> I am using spark-core version 2.0.1 with Scala 2.11. I have simple code to
> read a csv file which has \ escapes.
>
> val myDA = spark.read
> .option("quote",null)
> .schema(mySchema)
> .csv(filePath)
>
> As per documentation \ is default escape for csv reader. But it does not
> work. Spark is reading \ as part of my data. For Ex: City column in csv
> file is *north rocks\,au* . I am expecting city column should read in
> code as *northrocks,au*. But instead spark reads it as *northrocks\* and
> moves *au* to next column.
>
> I have tried following but did not work:
>
> - Explicitly defined escape .option("escape",”\\")
> - Changed escape to | or : in file and in code
> - I have tried using spark-csv library
>
> Any one facing same issue? Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks
>
