I agree quotes should work but I've found many parsers to not follow the expectation on this. As for semicolons I only meant as the delimiter leaving the commas inside your text. That way you can tell the parser that ; is the separator between records.
Thanks, Alex On 06/20/2011 01:04 PM, John Callahan wrote: > I use semi-colons when I can but have run into situations where commas are > necessary, such as names of places. I agree with the work-around and I've > done that before. As long as quotes (") are included around the values, it > should work, and I believe it was working for a while. > > - John > > *********************************** > John Callahan, Research Scientist > Delaware Geological Survey > University of Delaware > URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu > ******************************* > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Alex Mandel > <tech_...@wildintellect.com>wrote: > >> On 06/20/2011 12:35 PM, John Callahan wrote: >>> Has anyone seen this problem with the Delimited Text plugin? I am seeing >>> this in today's download of QGIS 1.7 standalone on Windows, and on a >> recent >>> install through OSGeo4W of 1.8-trunk. >>> >>> "Delimited text" plugin doesn't allow to load csv file with field with >>> commas >>> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/2208 >>> >>> - John >> >> I have had that problem before, with lots csv import tools (not just >> qgis). Are you using commas to separate the values too? I usually have >> much better success changing that to ; or | >> so instead of "2","test,test","1" >> "2";"test,test";"1" >> >> Easiest way to swap out the delimiter is to use OpenOffice/LibreOffice >> and change it when saving. >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user