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How do you read a CSV file with commas within a field?

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  1. How do you handle commas in a CSV file?
  2. How are commas usually escaped in a CSV file?
  3. Can CSV files contain commas?
Using "Data - From Text" to open files Open a new Excel sheet. Click the Data tab, then From Text. Select the CSV file that has the data clustered into one column. Select Delimited, then make sure the File Origin is Unicode UTF-8. Select Comma (this is Affinity's default list separator). . Finally, click Finish.


How do you handle commas in a CSV file?

Re: Handling 'comma' in the data while writing to a CSV. So for data fields that contain a comma, you should just be able to wrap them in a double quote. Fields containing line breaks (CRLF), double quotes, and commas should be enclosed in double-quotes.

How are commas usually escaped in a CSV file?

Enclose the field in quotes, e.g. A comma is simply encapsulated using quotes, so , becomes "," . A comma and quote needs to be encapsulated and quoted, so "," becomes """,""" .

Can CSV files contain commas?

In case your Data Loader CSV file for import will contain commas for any of the field content, you will have to enclose the contents within double quotation marks " ". Data Loader will be able to handle this.

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