A simple solution would be to see if your data supplier can use a
different delimiter.

Instead of a comma, if they can use a '|' (pipe symbol found to left
of 'Z' on keyboard) or a ~ (tilda) character then these tend not to
crop up in 'ordinary text'.

You could 'parse' the data yourself.  That is look for the text
qualified " using the find function, mark this character position as
the start of a text field and look for the closing ", mark this as the
end, now for the characters within this region strip out any delimiter
characters.  Repeat for rest of string.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brant Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:31:09 +1000
Subject: RE: escaping " character
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

It will be a regular transfer, almost on a daily basis. I am not sure if I
am going to be able to get the other party to supply the data with double
quotes and commas as in a text qualifier.

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