Fw: [Pythoncard-users] CSV for PythonCard

[Magnus L. H. <ml...@id...>]

From: "Skip Montanaro" <sk...@po...>
To: <ml...@id...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] CSV for PythonCard


>
>     >> I suspect the docstring is a killer:
>     >>
>     >> Generalized to be usable for any delimiter but \n.
>     >>
>     >> Many tools can generate CSV files with fields containing newlines.
>
>     Magnus> Really? And what do they use as record separator?
>
> Magnus,
>
> I don't know, but I suspect you process fields until you see a newline
> *between* fields.  Clearly, an occurrence of a newline within a field
would
> have to be quoted.
>
> Please forward this along to pythoncard for me.  Lists.sourceforge.net
> doesn't like me. :-(
>
> Skip