You're correct. That way probably would be the preferred work-around. - John
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com>wrote: > 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 >
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