On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:32:52 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>> erik,viking,"ham, spam and eggs","He said ""Ni!""","line one
>> line two"
>>
>> That's 5 elements:
>>
>> 1: eric
>> 2: viking
>> 3: ham, spam and eggs
>> 4: He said "Ni!"
>> 5: line one
>> line two
>
> Also true - What can I say - I can only wriggle and mutter...
>
> I see that you escaped the quotes by doubling them up -
That's how Excel and the `csv` module do it.
> What would the following parse to?:
>
> erik,viking,ham, spam and eggs,He said "Ni!",line one
> line two
Why don't you try yourself? The `csv` module returns two records, the
first has six items:
1: erik
2: viking
3: ham
4: spam and eggs
5: He said "Ni!"
6: line one
'line two' is the only item in the next record then.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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