Thanks, Adam. I'm thinking we'll probably have to go down the road of pre-parsing the CSV to determine what delimiters are being used and then converting as needed.
-- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com> On Behalf Of Adam Buckland Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 10:01 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Variations in CSV settings by region When I worked for a data prep house (Late 1980s) we used to use pipe delimited files and wrote a C utility to strip files back removing the local oddities. Excel etc can import using various versions if you are using the GUI, not sure about actually coding it but a short fox pro routing could read a line at a time and replace commas with escaped commas and then replace semi colons with commas. On 16 Apr 2021, at 14:42, Richard Kaye <rk...@invaluable.com> wrote: Throwing this one out to the collective wisdom. We're doing a lot with CSV import/experts these days with our web-based WWC application and are running into issues with regionalization. Here in the US, a "standard" CSV means commas between data elements and double quotes around text elements. But in Belgium, the delimiter is the semi-colon and text elements are not wrapped in double quotes. As best I can tell, Excel determines what format to use by the OS settings and not its own application settings. This makes importing from a CSV a bit of a dance for our Belgian clients as they have to change their regional settings, import the file that was received in US format, and then change their settings back. And, of course, changing region affects date and currency formats. For those of you working with clients from multiple locations where the standards may be different, what strategies do you use to deal with this? TIA -- rk --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/mwhpr1001mb21441d33ac5568051bec296ad2...@mwhpr1001mb2144.namprd10.prod.outlook.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
