Chad, > > i have a csv file. Here is an example. (it is taken from messages > > stored on > > a phone). > > 1,status,"","[EMAIL PROTECTED]","here is a messagemessage", 2001/10/16 (Tue) > > 19:34,status > > "",status,"","[EMAIL PROTECTED]","here is a messagemessage", > > 2001/10/16 (Tue) > > 19:34,status > > > > > > anyhelp would be really appreciated. > Can you change the delimiters that are being used to output this file?
Having done a substantial amount of work with newspaper content output from Quark pages. I found that about the only way to deal with the unknowns that you'll have in your message text is to change the delimiters to something that you are highly unlikely to find in the text. For me these delimiters eventually became, and have been ever since, | (pipe) for column/field delimiters and ¬ (chr(172)) for text delimiters. Once you have sensible delimiters then the whole task becomes infinitely easier to handle. (400+ news stories plus images processed from Quark pages, inserted into a text retrieval database, additional information added to _every_ story and imported into a website in the space of approximately 1.5hours, a minimum of twice a day :o) ) If you can't change the delimiters, can you get all the other fields surrounded by " (double quotes) as well? (Especially as you have text in your date/times and text status fields) If you can do that, then you have a better idea of the column breaks, because you are unlikely to get "," in the middle of your message text. > Have you tried using the Text ODBC driver? > > It usually opens the files as normal CSVs and you don't have to worry about > using CFFile (or CSX_ tags) as you can use it as a datasource > Ewww.. Phil! You sick puppy! ;o) Regards Stephen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
