Scripting Question

[Ray Parrish]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
>   
>> split(',').  Do that once with a CSV with embedded commas and you go
>>     
>
> In fairness to the rest of the scripting world,  perl, php, ruby, etc
> all of which have very similar code:
>
> <?php
> $handle = fopen("test.csv", "r");
> while (($row = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
>     print $row[2] .',' . $row[3] ;    //etc
> }
>
> Its also possible to have embedded quotes and embedded new lines.
>   
Hello,

I've been following this thread, and I just have to ask. Why would any 
good program which generated csv output allow any embedded commas in the 
data? That seems kind of counter productive to me. I would think that 
any program which generated csv output, would replace any commas within 
the data with a space or some other character, so that the csv file 
would work as intended.

Later, Ray Parrish

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