On 2/11/08, BareFeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Puneet, > > > I have a db in which the data in some fields in some tables has > > newlines (line breaks). All is fine until I want to export this into > > a CSV or tab-delimited format in which case the line breaks mess up > > the > > row-by-row records. > > How does it mess it up? CSV facilitates newlines in the data by > wrapping in quotes any cells containing them. I just did a quick text > using: > > .mode csv > select MyField from MyTable; > > where data in myField contains newlines etc, and SQLite seemed to > output correctly, wrapping those data elements in double quotes. > > into what other program do you want to import the resulting CSV? All > software that properly handles CSV importing should handle the output > from SQLite correctly (according to by brief test).
I don't know what I was smoking. You are very correct. Ok. This problem solved. I don't have to scramble these eggs. Onto the next one in a new thread. > > > I am thinking, maybe I should not allow storing line breaks in the > > database > > I think that's extreme and starts scrambling the egg. > > Tom > BareFeet > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
