Re: [phpesp-general] survey_export_csv.inc weirdness

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Yep. What I really need is to find out what the "accepted"
(or defined) CSV standard is. Here are some things that
need to be known:
 o Should text (non-numeric) values be quoted?
 o What character should be used for quotes?
   (" == ASCII 0x22)
 o What values need to be escaped in a quoted string?
 o How should values be escaped?
 o What types of newlines should be used?
 o How should newlines in quotes be handled?

If someone could find out the "official" answers to those
questions it would be helpful. My guess is that there is
nothing close to official ... in which case I guess we just
need the "closest match".

> How's the dbf export coming along?

Well ... pretty good in some situations. I need more info
on the DBF format as well... I think that some programs
have limits on the length of column labels (10 chars)?
See the comments on the PHP dBase extension here:
  http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dbase-create.php
We are limited to at most, 255 character field widths.
-James