Re^2: good delimiter in data for Perl

No, because my data itself can have those separators which the CSV will be using. so these separators may clash, and data parsed wrongly !!

Sathiyamoorthy

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Re^3: good delimiter in data for Perl by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 07, 2009 at 15:12 UTC
Do you really think CSV could be so popular if that wasn't a tackled problem? In CSV, there's a way to protect separators occuring inside data fields.	[reply]
Re^3: good delimiter in data for Perl by dorward (Curate) on Jan 07, 2009 at 15:12 UTC
CVS has standard ways to handle special characters in data: `1,2,3,4 is (1, 2, 3, 4) 1,"2,2,2",3,4 is (2, '2,2,2', 3, 4) 1,"2,""2""2",3 is (1, '2,"2",2', 3, 4)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]