CSV Conversion Considering Edge Cases

We currently have a problem converting an internal ABAP table into a CSV file.
Example:
UserID;Name;Pet1;Pet2
D012345 Klaus Meier Dog;Bruno Cat"Kitty
should become
D012345;"Klaus Meier";"Dog;Bruno";"Cat ""Kitty" (<- content delimiter, escaped)
Is there a specific functional module where you can define whether to use such delimiters or not? And what would happen if there is - per accident - only one double quote in the field, can this be escaped e.g. by a second double-quote like Excel does it?
We are running on NW 7.01. Any help highly appreciated.
Best,
Oliver

you just do
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '"' IN my_struc WITH '""'.
then you apply separators

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Hi,
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"Active","1234","fdsfs","fsdfsdfs"
"","","fsdfda"","Fsdfsfsdfsdf""12202003"
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currently my conversion file is coming like this:
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Hi,
When you try to open such files in Excel...if there is no space between two field even it is comma....it will take it as whole string...
if you have fixed length...excel gives you the option either with delimiters or with fixed lengths.
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Akshay.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 11933: Addressing an edge case for TileList where at times the listItems array doesn 't accurately reflect a fully realized set of item renderers.

Revision: 11933
Revision: 11933
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-18 06:55:18 -0800 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
Addressing an edge case for TileList where at times the listItems array doesn't accurately reflect a fully realized set of item renderers. This can occur when the TileList row/col creation routine bails out early when it believes it has no further need to create renderers due to current height of the list itself.
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Doc notes: None
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Selecting the data without considering any case sensitives

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Hi,
I need to select the data without considering any case sensitives.
Eg: If i enter ***JoHn****, then system need to select all currencies or amount depending on the this name.
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use cp or like in the select query
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That is absolutely unreadable.
I agree completely. How about also providing a link to a set of input files so that we could actually run the code ourselves? Otherwise, there is no chance to debug the source code, it is just a mess.
You might have better luck with an older version of the file. To quote the comments:
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To CSV conversion problem

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I think the problem is a spelling error: you named your structure "structs" and then you refer to it as "struct".
You have to choose one between the two (or a better one if you can find it).
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CSV conversion problem

Hello,
I'm looking for help solving the following problem. For my research I'm using a program that crawls the web, looking for particular information. The input for this program are CSV files, in which each keyword is enclosed in ' '. In Numbers this isn't problematic if I set up the Text option for the cells. When I convert it to CSV however, the first ' disappears, so that the web program is fed with the wrong information and doesn't work.
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In fact it seems that two problems strike.
(1) if the cell is not defined as text, the first single quote is dropped
(2) if cells are defined as text, the single straight quotes are replaced by smart curly single quotes which aren't what your other program requires.
This script takes care of that.
As I don't know if you need double quotes, I inserted a property allowing you to enclose values with double quotes or not.
--[SCRIPT clipboard2CSVfileWithQuotes]
Enregistrer le script en tant que Script, Application ou Progiciel :clipboard2CSVfileWithQuotes.xxx
déplacer le fichier créé dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
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menu Scripts > Numbers > clipboard2CSVfileWithQuotes
Des apostrophes seront ajoutées si nécessaire.
Le script créera un fichier CSV dans lequel toutes les valeurs sont encadrées par des guillemets.
--=====
L'aide du Finder explique:
L'Utilitaire AppleScript permet d'activer le Menu des scripts :
Ouvrez l'Utilitaire AppleScript situé dans le dossier Applications/AppleScript.
Cochez la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre de menus".
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Save the script as a Script, an Application or an Application Bundle:clipboard2CSVfileWithQuotes.xxx
Move the newly created file into the folder:
<startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
Maybe you would have to create the folder Numbers and even the folder Applications by yourself.
Coopy the range of cells to export into the clipboard
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--=====
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To make the Script menu appear:
Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications/AppleScript.
Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox.
+++++++
Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris FRANCE)
21 juillet 2009
property curlyOpen : "‘" (* the 'smart' single opening quote used by Numbers *)
property curlyClose : "’" (* the 'smart' single closing quote used by Numbers *)
property doubleQuotesRequired : false
(* true = enclose every value with double quotes
false = doesn't enclose every value with double quotes *)
on run
try
set enTexte to the clipboard as text
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set p2d to path to desktop
tell application "System Events" to make new file at end of p2d with properties {name:fName}
set enListe to paragraphs of enTexte
repeat with r from 1 to count of enListe
set rowR to item r of enListe
set listeR to my decoupe(rowR, tab)
repeat with c from 1 to count of listeR
set itmRC to item c of listeR
if itmRC ends with curlyClose then set itmRC to (text 1 thru -2 of itmRC) & "'"
if itmRC starts with curlyOpen then set itmRC to "'" & (text 2 thru -1 of itmRC)
if (itmRC ends with "'") and itmRC does not start with "'" then set itmRC to ("'" & itmRC)
set item c of listeR to itmRC
end repeat
set item r of enListe to my recolle(listeR, tab)
end repeat
if doubleQuotesRequired then
set enTexte to my recolle(enListe, quote & return & quote)
set enTexte to my remplace(enTexte, tab, quote & "," & quote)
if enTexte does not start with quote then set enTexte to quote & enTexte
if enTexte does not end with quote then set enTexte to enTexte & quote
else
set enTexte to my recolle(enListe, return)
set enTexte to my remplace(enTexte, tab, ",")
end if
write enTexte to file ((p2d as text) & fName)
on error
if my parleAnglais() then
error "The clipboard doesn’t contain text data. Maybe you selected a Numbers sheet !"
else
error "Le presse-papiers ne contient pas de données texte. Vous avez peut-être copié une feuille de Numbers !"
end if
end try
end run
--=====
on decoupe(t, d)
local l
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set l to text items of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return l
end decoupe
--=====
on recolle(l, d)
local t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return t
end recolle
--=====
replaces every occurences of d1 by d2 in the text t
on remplace(t, d1, d2)
local l
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d1
set l to text items of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d2
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return t
end remplace
--=====
on parleAnglais()
local z
try
tell application "Numbers" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
on error
set z to "Cancel"
end try
return (z is not "Annuler")
end parleAnglais
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
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</InvoiceDetailRequest>
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Waiting for your reply. Thanks.
-Sunil

As far as your clarification around "What CSV looks like?" I must tell you this XML has Header and Details Data it should display Header and Line information in a single line of CSV.
It's not that simple.
For example, take the <InvoicePartner> element, there are 3 occurrences in the sample XML. How do they translate into csv format ? All three on the same line, or each in its own new line (potentially generating lots of redundancies in the process) ?
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