Hmmm, a miracle tool for little or no money too? ;-) I do not know, if this meets your specific requirements, but...
Have you looked at DOWNLOAD from http://www.cedarville.edu/departments/compserv/ftp.htm ? It's been around for a long, long time...no need to roll your own, when it's been done all before...originated on Prime INFORMATION, now on U2, complete with source code and supplied "as is" without any warranty. Documentation is here: ftp://ftp.cedarville.edu/download/download721/download.pdf. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of IT-Laure Hansen Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:01 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Excel downloads Comma delimited fields are always a bit of an issue in this case. The correct way to program CSVs is to place quotes around the fields, to account for just this - but then: what if you have quotes in your fields? Tab is usually a "safer" delimiter for the simple reason that it is rarely stored as such in data files, but Excel does not handle a tab-delimited file quite as well as a CSV file. You can of course use I-descriptors that convert quotes to blanks first, or any other transformation. Thus my original question asking for help and tricks: I know what it takes to get me to where I want to be, but I am looking for the miracle tool that will work for all types of data extractions with minimal data massaging and scripting from me. Thanks, Laure Hansen, City of Redwood City Information Technology 1017 Middlefield Road Redwood City, CA 94063 Tel 650-780-7087 Cell 650-207-3235 Fax 650-556-9204 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Davis Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:36 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Excel downloads What if the data fields contain quotes or double-quotes themselves? Does this handle that situation? ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
