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- Submitted-by: malcolm@usenet.icl.co.nz (Malcolm Stayner)
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- I've recently come across a situation where a UNIX application incorrectly
- processed a CSV file because null fields were not delimited by double quotes.
- e.g.
- Apple,Banana,,,Orange
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- instead of:
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- Apple,Banana,"","",Orange
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- Does anyone know of a formal standard for CSV files and, in particular the
- correct rules for the above situation?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 94
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