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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pipe delimited to csv Post 302934268 by dagamier on Thursday 5th of February 2015 06:22:00 PM
Old 02-05-2015
Pipe delimited to csv

I have a small quandry. I had server reports that I pulled from a database that came out pipe "|" delimited. The developers have now changed the format to CSV. The issue is that some fields have quotes around the text and other fields are blank with strings of commas denoting each field. To further complicate things, quoted fields can have commas in them as well. I used to do a bunch of awk processing based on the pipe delimiter that is obviously now broken. Does anyone know of a way to use the CSV format so that it can differentiate between the quoted text a la Excel text to columns conversion?
 

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SPLFILEOBJECT.FPUTCSV(3)						 1						  SPLFILEOBJECT.FPUTCSV(3)

SplFileObject::fputcsv - Write a field array as a CSV line

SYNOPSIS
public int SplFileObject::fputcsv (array $fields, [string $delimiter = ","], [string $enclosure = '"'], [string $escape = " DESCRIPTION
Writes the $fields array to the file as a CSV line. PARAMETERS
o $fields - An array of values. o $delimiter - The optional $delimiter parameter sets the field delimiter (one character only). o $enclosure - The optional $enclosure parameter sets the field enclosure (one character only). o $escape - The optional $escape parameter sets the escape character (one character only). RETURN VALUES
Returns the length of the written string or FALSE on failure. Returns FALSE, and does not write the CSV line to the file, if the $delimiter or $enclosure parameter is not a single character. ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS An E_WARNING level error is issued if the $delimiter or $enclosure parameter is not a single character. CHANGELOG
+--------------+-------------------------------+ | Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------------+-------------------------------+ |5.5.21, 5.6.5 | | | | | | | Added the $escape parameter. | | | | +--------------+-------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 SplFileObject::fputcsv example <?php $list = array ( array('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'dddd'), array('123', '456', '789'), array('"aaa"', '"bbb"') ); $file = new SplFileObject('file.csv', 'w'); foreach ($list as $fields) { $file->fputcsv($fields); } ?> The above example will write the following to file.csv: aaa,bbb,ccc,dddd 123,456,789 """aaa""","""bbb""" SEE ALSO
fputcsv(3), SplFileObject::fgetcsv. PHP Documentation Group SPLFILEOBJECT.FPUTCSV(3)
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