Batch Loader Utility: Automatically add extra characters if a cell contains double quotation mark

RE: Batch Loader Utility: Automatically add extra characters if a cell contains double quotation mark

Skyler Crossman — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:00:46 GMT

Jacky,

You're welcome, glad to help! Most of my work with the batchloader has been in text editors, so I'm used to spotting errant quotations. Prior to remembering Open Offic Calc could save without the delimiter, I had a regular expression doing the job. Calc is much easier!

Skyler

RE: Batch Loader Utility: Automatically add extra characters if a cell contains double quotation mark

Jacky Phan — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 04:19:36 GMT

Skyler C.

You mentioned the correct point, it is because of spreadsheet editors that automatically surrounds double quotes by this rule: "Fields with embedded commas or double-quote characters must be quoted" which described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Basic_rules.

I tried to use Open Office Calc tool to open an EXCEL file, then save it as CSV without Text Delimiter. It worked as expected.

Thank you very much!

RE: Batch Loader Utility: Automatically add extra characters if a cell contains double quotation mark

Skyler Crossman — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:00:17 GMT

Jacky Phan,

I'm having a bit of trouble replicating your issue. The batchloader combines the data row with the AML template, so you should be able to see the AML that's going to be run by clicking on a row. Do you see your extra quotation marks there? They may well be escaped in some fashion, since double quotes are reserved characters in XML. Look for " where you might expect a double quote.

I know that some spreadsheet editors have an annoying habit of adding quotes around cells which contain a string. I use Open Office Calc a lot, and I have to manually uncheck the checkbox to add the surrounding quote every time I save a file for batch loading. If you open the file with Notepad or some equivalent do you still see the extra quotes?

If you're not seeing the extra quotes in your file, but do see them in the loaded data in Innovator, let me know what they look like in the Template preview.

Skyler C.