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Escaping a comma-delimited line.
by Peter Boughton
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I have some data resembling the following:
Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs House,Bobs Road,,,Bobs City,,Bobs Postcode,"China, People's Republic of",bob@...,, And I would like to convert it to this: "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs House","Bobs Road","~BLANK~","~BLANK~","Bobs City","~BLANK~","Bobs Postcode","China~COMMA~ People's Republic of","bob@...","~BLANK~","~BLANK~" Can anyone provide a/some tidy regex statement(s) that will do this for me. Bonus points for being able to cater for things such as this: Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs "Fun" House,Bobs Road... to "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs ~QUOTE~Fun~QUOTE~ House","Bobs Road"... but I don't think that's needed for my current set of data. A thousand thankyou's to anyone able to help. Peter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:919 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=17837.14401.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54 |
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Re: Escaping a comma-delimited line.
by Ben Doom
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Well, this can be done with regex, but I would probably skip it. Check
first and last chars, and prepend/append ~BLANK~ as necessary, replace() quotes with ~QUOTE~, replace commas with "," and then prepend/append with quotes. Something like The code might not be as pretty, but it'll be easier to debug. --Ben Peter Boughton wrote: > I have some data resembling the following: > Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs House,Bobs Road,,,Bobs City,,Bobs Postcode,"China, > People's Republic of",bob@...,, > > And I would like to convert it to this: > "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs House","Bobs Road","~BLANK~","~BLANK~","Bobs > City","~BLANK~","Bobs Postcode","China~COMMA~ People's Republic > of","bob@...","~BLANK~","~BLANK~" > > Can anyone provide a/some tidy regex statement(s) that will do this for me. > > Bonus points for being able to cater for things such as this: > Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs "Fun" House,Bobs Road... > to > "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs ~QUOTE~Fun~QUOTE~ House","Bobs Road"... > but I don't think that's needed for my current set of data. > > A thousand thankyou's to anyone able to help. > > Peter > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:920 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=17837.14401.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54 |
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Re: Escaping a comma-delimited line.
by Peter Boughton
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Was there an example there? "Something like..."?
I've currently got something which works similarly to how you described, but the bit which is causing problems is when there is a comma inside an already quoted field - in my example, the "China, people's republic of" bit. It seems like a simple ,"[^"]*,[^"]*", should work, ... and it does! :S Gah, it didn't work earlier. :@ On 12/08/05, Ben Doom <bdoom-hof@...> wrote: > Well, this can be done with regex, but I would probably skip it. Check > first and last chars, and prepend/append ~BLANK~ as necessary, replace() > quotes with ~QUOTE~, replace commas with "," and then prepend/append > with quotes. Something like > > The code might not be as pretty, but it'll be easier to debug. > > --Ben > > Peter Boughton wrote: > > I have some data resembling the following: > > Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs House,Bobs Road,,,Bobs City,,Bobs Postcode,"China, > > People's Republic of",bob@...,, > > > > And I would like to convert it to this: > > "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs House","Bobs Road","~BLANK~","~BLANK~","Bobs > > City","~BLANK~","Bobs Postcode","China~COMMA~ People's Republic > > of","bob@...","~BLANK~","~BLANK~" > > > > Can anyone provide a/some tidy regex statement(s) that will do this for me. > > > > Bonus points for being able to cater for things such as this: > > Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs "Fun" House,Bobs Road... > > to > > "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs ~QUOTE~Fun~QUOTE~ House","Bobs Road"... > > but I don't think that's needed for my current set of data. > > > > A thousand thankyou's to anyone able to help. > > > > Peter > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:921 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=17837.14401.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54 |
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Re: Escaping a comma-delimited line.
by Ben Doom
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Peter Boughton wrote:
> Was there an example there? "Something like..."? "that" was supposed to follow. > I've currently got something which works similarly to how you > described, but the bit which is causing problems is when there is a > comma inside an already quoted field - in my example, the "China, > people's republic of" bit. > It seems like a simple ,"[^"]*,[^"]*", should work, ... and it does! > :S Gah, it didn't work earlier. :@ Hah! I think we've all had that happen. :-) --Ben > On 12/08/05, Ben Doom <bdoom-hof@...> wrote: > >>Well, this can be done with regex, but I would probably skip it. Check >>first and last chars, and prepend/append ~BLANK~ as necessary, replace() >>quotes with ~QUOTE~, replace commas with "," and then prepend/append >>with quotes. Something like >> >>The code might not be as pretty, but it'll be easier to debug. >> >>--Ben >> >>Peter Boughton wrote: >> >>>I have some data resembling the following: >>>Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs House,Bobs Road,,,Bobs City,,Bobs Postcode,"China, >>>People's Republic of",bob@...,, >>> >>>And I would like to convert it to this: >>>"Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs House","Bobs Road","~BLANK~","~BLANK~","Bobs >>>City","~BLANK~","Bobs Postcode","China~COMMA~ People's Republic >>>of","bob@...","~BLANK~","~BLANK~" >>> >>>Can anyone provide a/some tidy regex statement(s) that will do this for me. >>> >>>Bonus points for being able to cater for things such as this: >>>Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs "Fun" House,Bobs Road... >>>to >>>"Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs ~QUOTE~Fun~QUOTE~ House","Bobs Road"... >>>but I don't think that's needed for my current set of data. >>> >>>A thousand thankyou's to anyone able to help. >>> >>>Peter >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:922 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=17837.14401.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54 |
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